Explore Quotes on Understanding

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.