Understanding Quotes - Page 108

Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.