To be united, we need to listen to each other, and to understand one another.

Learning the mind is as important as understanding the body.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you’ve walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there’s no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

Comedy is a medicine – a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation?

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing

I keep thinking about Henry, who goes for a walk every day at Potomac Park. I don’t understand why I don’t even ask him to stay home. What type of Mom I’m?

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

Even though you don’t understand what I’m saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn’t even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Through my experience in my life, the number of people I ever come across most of them are only interested in one single thing, and that is actually how to escape at all times. But I don’t understand why people always want to run away or to escape from their things in life.

He was a violent, unjust man. Why the plague germs spared him I can never understand. It would seem, in spite of our old metaphysical notions about absolute justice, that there is no justice in the universe. Why did he live? – an iniquitous, moral monster, a blot on the face of nature, a cruel, relentless, bestial cheat as well. All.

He lighted a cigarette, and in the curling smoke of it caught visions of his English mother, and wondered if she would understand how her son could love a woman who cried because she could not be skipper of a schooner in the cannibal isles.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Through these assaults of the left hemisphere on the body, spirituality and art, essentially mocking, discounting or dismantling what it does not understand and cannot use, we are at risk of becoming trapped in the I–it world, with all the exits through which we might rediscover the I–thou world being progressively blocked off.

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ

God is able to do more than man can understand

I’d go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can’t fill because I don’t understand what this is. It’s like you’re given a job that’s beyond you. And it’s taken me years to realize what works in those big situations

I think maybe since there isn’t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don’t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I’m going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part

You know, it’s never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean

My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that’s something that develops as you get older. And I’ve grown into that.

I’ve grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don’t have to understand it. You may not like it. That’s OK.

I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else

People need to understand that if I dive, it’s because I know I can dive.

For sure it’s better to have a coach. I won’t lie to you. It’s better to have someone to help you. I need it, you know. But as I say all the time, it’s not easy to feel someone. That person has to be – has to be, for me, like good, first of all, but has to be hard and also understand my personality.

Histories are to educate, so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer

We have to understand that we’re not each others enemy.

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

How can you do both? In physics we try to tell people in such a way that they understand something that nobody knew before. In the case of poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” Flattered, Robert just laughed.

Today, of course, the world’s perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

Nobody had his [Ed Wood’s] style. That’s something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there – cryptic things that most people wouldn’t understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.

It’s really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it’s great.

I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it’s all dark moving water again.

The only thing better than “hands-on” experience is hands-off experience – enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing

I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of “how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn’t do it to gain power or money as I recall,” and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I’m a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.

A book is a bridge to understanding

It is by tracing things to their origin, that we learn to understand them; and it is by keeping that line and that origin always in view, that we never forget them

Writing is a way to understand life

Literature is a bridge between people, cultures, and times. It allows us to understand others and ourselves

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

I was pleased my dad communicated in Arabic smoothly – his dad sent him to take Arabic from a sheik – and we had Arab companions. His assignment of understanding the Arabs – governmental issues as well as verse – was significant; he accepted it as employment.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

The only true way to understand Life is to live it yourself.

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer’s life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Now I understand why people do drugs, why people drink, and why people go crazy. As the success level goes up and up and up, the further detached I get from everybody else. Luckily, with my girlfriend, everything is gravy because I brought her into it. I brought her in and she’s very hands-on with my career.

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, — which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

I like when red carpets are over. I hate red carpets in general. I don’t understand them.

Everybody understands that you’re supposed to say ‘our employees are our most valuable asset’ to the point where, even if it’s really true, they’re not going to really trust you until you’ve earned that – same with customers.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don’t know anything about the zeitgeist.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

Because every desire has its proper object…people spend their lives wanting things the shouldn’t. The world confuses them into taking heir love and aiming it where it doesn’t belong…All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money. Not books. People. Adults who don’t understand that never feel fulfilled.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I only understand difficult things.

I am still trying to understand this game, … I am still learning how to play golf. There are a lot of shots I still don’t know. I am still trying to learn, and I think that’s a good attitude to have.

The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.

I totally understand OJ. I get it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment

Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Since that time, Muslims have quoted the “Quraysh Model” as justification for deceptive treaties. This model means: “Negotiate ‘peace’ with your enemy until you become strong enough to annihilate him.” This is the justification Chairman Yasser Arafat quoted in Arabic to the Muslim world when he signed the Oslo Agreement. Muslims believe that no infidels really understand what the Quraysh Model means—and for the vast majority of non-Muslims, that is a correct assumption

To give me all your love is all I ever ask ‘Cause what you don’t understand is I’d catch a grenade for ya

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won’t understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

My neighbours think I’m crazy But they don’t understand You’re all I had

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it’s considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Don’t worry about what you do not understand… Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

We’re in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that’s what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

I think it’s important for people who don’t know you to get a sense of the way you view the world, your politics, your point of view. I think that helps people understand your takes on various things.

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin… Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

Give credit where credit is due; don’t you know that I don’t give a number two? Y’all just halfway thoughts. Not worth the back of my mind. But to understand the future, we have to go back in time.

I don’t understand the word ‘lose,’ I only understand the word ‘learn.

Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates’ colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee.

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God’s messages.

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‘People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.’ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

The people I don’t understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I’m always around nature. I look at everything and think, ‘Who couldn’t believe there’s a God? Is all this a mistake?’ It just blows me away.

I’m a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you.

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn’t like me.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

I’m regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

Critics I don’t understand. They get too intellectual. They’re not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.

This is how grace works; it enters the soul, penetrates the heart, saturates the conscience, abides in the memory, affects the affections, gives understanding to the understanding, and imparts real life to the heart, which is the seat of life.

The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

The less we understand of what our forebears sought, the less we understand ourselves. And thus, we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzsche called, ‘the spirit of gravity.

If we understand and feel that here, in this life, we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied

TFtrurue love is born from understanding.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.