Understanding Quotes - Page 116

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.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.

There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.

See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

You are responsible for understanding your limitations.

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.