U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Understanding the language is a quintessential part of understanding the culture.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”
“Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.”
“Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.”
“Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.”
“Understanding the nature and power of demons has always been an exceedingly challenging endeavor.”
Source: On the nature of demons: De natura daemonum
“Understanding the nature of change is critical for overcoming resistance.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.”
“Understanding the nuanced interplay between autonomy, competence, and relatedness can guide educators in creating learning environments that empower students to thrive and succeed on their educational journey.”
“Understanding the nuances of rivalry can help extend your career. It doesn’t mean you’ll be holding hands across the finish line. It means their presence makes you better, faster, stronger. Because of them, you’ll find out exactly what you are made of.”
Source: Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to Think Differently During Times of Change
“Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“Understanding the origins of people-pleasing is crucial for breaking free from this pattern.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life
“Understanding the origins of styles and how they have evolved gives us the framework for creating our own personal style with the best of yesterday and today’s influences.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Understanding the other persons' needs does not mean you have to give up on your own needs.”
Source: We Can Work it Out: Resolving Conflicts Peacefully and Powerfully
“Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.”
Source: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays
“Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.”
Source: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays
“Understanding the person or people living in a home is a far greater need in design than focusing purely on the aesthetics. The home is designed around emotional needs.”
Source: Rethink: The Way You Live
“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain them away. Rather, it demonstrates their physical existence as a fundamental, shared part of human nature. Spiritual experiences cannot be considered irrational, since we have seen that, given their physiological basis, experiencers' descriptions of them are perfectly rational... All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based... It is not rational to assume that the spiritual reality of core experiences is any less real than the more scientifically documentable material reality.”
Source: Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
“Understanding the rules of engagement separate winners from losers!”
“Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself is
crucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championing
justice between genders and all diverse groups in the community. If the
shadow is not recognized and dealt with, it will dominate an individual or . . . community, resulting in untold suffering.”
Source: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
“Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.”
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Understanding the starvation protection response helps eating disorders patients understand why restrictive dieting doesn't work.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Understanding the subtle nuances in life allows you to see the world through a wider and different lens. There is a difference between power vs authority.....kindness vs being nice......and being ready for something vs being prepared. Its a deeper mental dive....but also very enlightening.”
Source: Interpretations
“Understanding the times is a precondition of responding appropriately to the times. And understanding the times requires a knowledge of the history that has led up to the present.”
“Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.”
“understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.”
“Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“Understanding the unique needs of each business is crucial in tailoring financial solutions that align with their objectives. It’s never a one size fits all when it comes to financing.”
“Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.”
Source: Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
“Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life”
“Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision. Learning to listen, to recognize, to understand and attend the teachings and revelations of the Stories we have been given to live guides us toward the 5th world. Our individual stories, when carefully attended, can reveal each person’s particular path of healing and transformation. Even illness is a story that can lead us to our own and to community healing. Learning to recognize the Story that we or another is living can be a worthy life work.”
“Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.”
“Understanding this brain‑based battle can be empowering.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Understanding this inner council is the first step to self‑mastery.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.”
“Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.”
“Understanding underachievement requires a holistic examination of behavioural cues that unravel the truth about a person's true potential.”
“Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.”
“Understanding was out of the question; and indeed how passionately, just then, I did not want to be understood.”
Source: A Severed Head
“Understanding what 4IR is all about will help put into perspective how some of the world’s most cutting-edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Blockchain, IoT, AR, 3D Printing and many others will impact your own life.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.”
“Understanding what I give up and knowing that I choose freely makes my choice more precious to me.”
Source: Kate's Song
“Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that I don't like - political stupidity, environmental degradation, etc. And that makes me want to change it, to make a difference in the world.”
“Understanding what the narcissist finds threatening, entertaining and complimentary can be extremely helpful when deciding how best to “repackage” yourself- if this is what you want to do.”
Source: How to Handle a Narcissist: Understanding and Dealing with a Range of Narcissistic Personalities
“Understanding what you're OK with and what you're not OK with is so important to learn.”
“Understanding who we are, how God created us, how we grow, and how we give those gifts back to others is core work of the spiritual entrepreneur.”
Source: Spiritual Entrepreneurship: Raw Reflections of a Female CEO
“Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.”
“Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.”
Source: The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
“Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education”
“Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man’s value and behavior”