I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
~By George Gillespie ~
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
~By John Locke ~
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
~By Hu Shih ~
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
~By Christine de Pisan ~
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
~By Franz Kafka ~
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
~By Ma Rainey ~
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~By Og Mandino ~
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 ~
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.
~By Alton Brown ~
It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
~By Georges Rouault ~
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.
~By David Gower ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
~By Lech Walesa ~
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 ~
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
~By Edward Grey ~
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
~By Li Peng ~
Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
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 ~
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
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 obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
~By Dave Davies ~
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 ~
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
~By Craig T. Nelson ~
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
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 ~
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
~By Martin Ryle ~
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
~By John Searle ~
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
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 ~
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.
~By Pete du Pont ~
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've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
~By Kathy Acker ~
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
~By Madame de Stael ~
I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
~By Charlie Gonzalez ~
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 ~
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~By Princess Diana ~
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.
~By Peter Gay ~
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
~By Hans Kung ~
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
~By Upton Sinclair ~
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
~By Simon van der Meer ~
I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
~By Philip Roth ~
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
~By Donald Johanson ~
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
~By John Locke ~
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
~By David Korten ~
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
~By Jim Bunning ~
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
~By Lynn Davies ~
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 ~
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
~By Rollo May ~
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
~By Steven Brust ~
With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
~By Dana Plato ~
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
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 ~
I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
~By William Kirby ~
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
~By Alfred Adler ~
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
~By Albert Einstein ~
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
~By John W. Vessey, Jr. ~
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
~By John Woolman ~
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
~By Rene Descartes ~
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.
~By Dave Anderson ~
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