Quotes about understanding
understanding shadow patterns
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself. Bruce Lee
understanding inquiry honest
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
understanding use aids
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates. Edmund Burke
understanding planning observation
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
understanding wilderness disappear
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
understanding
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.
understanding evaluation social
Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison Albert Bandura
understanding experience minimalist
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
understanding hiv generations
My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that. Annie Lennox
understanding progress novelists
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. Annie Dillard
understanding sin weak
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross. D. A. Carson
understanding acting research
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding. Danny Huston
understanding existential imagine
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all. David Cronenberg
understanding agents temples
Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice. Dwight D. Eisenhower
understanding done frogs
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. E. B. White
understanding feelings capable
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. Andre Gide
understanding approving
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
understanding way stories
There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time. Ann-Marie MacDonald
understanding intellectual
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive. Ann Richards
understanding research half
Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also. Angela Bassett
understanding world way
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world. Ang Lee
understanding use demand
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding. Anatoly Chubais
understanding way philosopher
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear. Anatole France
understanding world kingdoms
I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you. Anais Nin
understanding problem pleasure
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. Anne Frank
understanding world watches
When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive. Chuck D.
understanding filmmaker imagery
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. Christopher Nolan
understanding covering details
I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget. Andrea Mitchell
understanding unity islam
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. Aly Khan
understanding way
The only way to change is by changing your understanding. Anthony de Mello
understanding
And without understanding, could each properly love the other? Anita Brookner
understanding challenges environmental
This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme. Andrew Tan
understanding arabia majesty
I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia. Ameen Rihani