Quotes about understanding
understanding bottles tables
Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding. Russell Baker
understanding trying actors
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
understanding important culture
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. Troy Perry
understanding magic enemy
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. Rick Riordan
understanding territory ends
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other. Rebecca Solnit
understanding secret way
The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. Rick Wakeman
understanding lines lightning
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. Richard Neal
understanding looks creation
If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective. Tariq Ramadan
understanding our-words deeds
If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned. T. S. Eliot
understanding possibility ability
All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. Susan Sontag
understanding promise ease
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease. Susan Sontag
understanding world accepting
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears. Susan Sontag
understanding shortcuts
Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else. Scott Adams
understanding brain development
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it. Ray Kurzweil
understanding language computer
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. Ray Kurzweil
understanding duty humans
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand... Soren Kierkegaard
understanding facts unexpected
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen. Soren Kierkegaard
understanding neurosis someday
Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis. Vincent Van Gogh
understanding prize
In life, understanding is the booby prize. Werner Erhard
understanding indifference mercy
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. Werner Herzog
understanding might painting
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it. Salvador Dali
understanding lines cop
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. Ryan Reynolds
understanding tools
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions. Rudolf Steiner
understanding able understanding-you
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others. Tony Orlando
understanding salary depends
You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
understanding mentor genius
True understanding is the spur of genius Ursula K. Le Guin
understanding imaginative desirable
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Walter Lippmann
understanding roles way
The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else. Yo-Yo Ma
understanding progress steps
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? William Matthews
understanding soil fruit
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship. Woodrow Wilson
understanding hell nazi
How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works. Woody Allen
understanding needs judgment
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. William Scranton
understanding misunderstood said
The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. William Saroyan