Understanding Quotes - Page 58

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path.

If you really want to contribute to our theoretical understanding of physical laws - and it is an exciting experience if you succeed! - there are many things you need to know. First of all, be serious about it!

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.

At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.