Understanding Quotes - Page 109

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.

Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier

I think the best value to leaders is understanding the generations for the purpose of integrating a younger workforce and transferring knowledge from an experienced workforce. I also think smaller companies may not have the resources for management training or recruiting and therefore there is not a lot of margin for error.

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.

I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things.

There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

I think I'd make a loving, caring, understanding boyfriend, who's in touch with his emotions. Or at least I'd like to be.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.