Understanding Quotes - Page 143

Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on.

The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Don't accept the post or stay unless you have an understanding with the President that you're free to tell him what you think "with the bark off" and you have the courage to do it.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain - even if only momentarily - a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

A language Older Than Words

In the age of social media, you have the selfie and some people - not always young people - seem obsessed with showing the world what their face looks like almost every day. Just like some people are obsessed with showing the world what their dinner looks like. It's beyond my understanding to be honest.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own epiphanies and your own desires and your own understanding of the world can reveal itself.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

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

'Normal Life' looks at the current moment in trans politics, understanding that it is often assumed that trans resistance strategies should mimic the lesbian and gay legal rights frameworks that have become so visible in recent decades.

Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding. This will strengthen our commitment and provide the spiritual reserves to do our best in all situations.

The whole basis of working in black and white and grays became the basis of my understanding of color, because it's all about tone, it's all about light and dark. If you don't get that, then your color work is going to be a mess. So that's the beginning of the toolkit: drawing and black and white media.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.