I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
~By David Rockefeller ~
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
~By William Trevor ~
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
~By Wil Wheaton ~
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
~By Halle Berry ~
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
~By Vicki Baum ~
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
~By Warren Rudman ~
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.
~By Evan Thomas ~
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
~By Mark Hatfield ~
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
~By Hypatia ~
From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an ambitious leftist, with little understanding of economics, and with far-reaching goals to create significant and irreversible growth of government and redistribution of wealth through dramatic changes in tax, regulatory, and spending policies.
~By Charles W. Calomiris ~
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
~By Pablo Picasso ~
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
~By Craig Johnston ~
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~By Xenophon ~
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
~By Will Adams ~
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
~By Anatole Broyard ~
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
~By Edward Albert ~
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
~By John Cage ~
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
~By Frank Herbert ~
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
~By Anthony Perkins ~
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
~By Carl Jung ~
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
~By George Takei ~
This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
~By Allen West ~
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
~By Marcel Carne ~
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
~By Walter Washington ~
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
~By Ryan White ~
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~By Robert Hall ~
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
~By Alice Walker ~
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
~By Richard Neal ~
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
~By Pierre Laval ~
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
~By Amar Bose ~
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
~By William James ~
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.
~By John Abizaid ~
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~By Bo Bennett ~
We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
~By Haley Barbour ~
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
~By Plato ~
The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
~By David Kay ~
I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
~By Adrian Cronauer ~
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
~By David Ansen ~
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
~By Bruce Jay Friedman ~
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
~By Willie Dixon ~
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
~By Terry Riley ~
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
~By David Hilbert ~
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it.
~By John Anderson ~
Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.
~By Modest Mussorgsky ~
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
~By Philip Roth ~
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
~By John Searle ~
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
~By Dick Cavett ~
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
~By Robert Hall ~
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
~By Kenneth Noland ~
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
~By Winifred Holtby ~
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
~By John Locke ~
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
~By Kathy Acker ~
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
~By Roy Spencer ~
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
~By Patricia Sun ~
So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.
~By Jello Biafra ~
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
~By George Grosz ~
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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