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“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.”

Knows Needs Artist Process Understanding Views Vision Achieve Musician Capable Advantage Point Of View Tick

Author:Tommy Mottola

“Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.”

Understanding Brain Capable Infinite Cheese Toasts Comprehending

Author:Jonathan Cainer

“The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.”

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Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”

Source: Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea

“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”

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Book:Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

“Generally speaking, I am not interested in the future and don't believe in it. First, I guess it is true that I don't trust the future, but, more to the point, I don't even trust the "myself" of tomorrow, nor, for that matter, of the day after. Basically, all I know, and all I am capable of understanding, is the "me" that is here, now, the "me" that has dragged his past with him to this point.”

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Author:Yohji Yamamoto

“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.”

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Author:Katherine Mansfield

“I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.”

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Author:John Powell

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”

Thinking Process Understanding Results Principles Produce Creatures Capable Accidents Expected Complexity Glorious Construction Unpredictable

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

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Book:The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

Source: The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

“I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.”

People Men Years Has Beens Evil Understanding Produce Capable Blind Moved Honey Bees

Author:William Golding

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.”

Thinking World Trying Humans Mean Made Understanding Human Beings Pay Attention Capable Pay Attention Cynical Superficial Wickedness

Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.”

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Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.”

Giving Form Understanding Imagination Capable Illness Characteristics Heredity

Author:Alfred Binet

“The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”

“The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.”

People Understanding Capable Unhappy Idiot Unhappiness Unjust Egotism Discontent Egotistical

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.”

People Ifs Hate Understanding Numbers Brain Type Findings Capable Logic England Hate You Large Numbers Eliot

Author:D. J. Taylor

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc

“More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?”

“A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.”

“Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.”

World Needs Mind Heart Kind Important Pain Spiritual Form Understanding Conditions Emotional Regret Messages Capable Fixed Tunes Distress Signals Heart And Mind Just Listen

Author:Karyn Kusama

“Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.”

People World Humans Reality Understanding Human Beings Circumstances Creating Capable Victim Domain Unfolding Participating Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Peter Senge

“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”

Want Understanding Capable Self Knowledge Superficial Understanding Myself

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.”

Thinking Ideas Kids Understanding Capable Adults Transgender

Author:Jill Soloway

“Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.”

Today Left Understanding Simple Car Capable Instruction Primitive Robots

Author:John Thomas Sladek

“I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.”

Believe May Said Bigs Universe I Believe Felt Understanding Capable I Believe In Big Things Insignificant

Author:Stephen Hawking

“There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.”

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Author:Mallory Ortberg

“If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.”

Ifs Persons States Understanding Impossible Capable Consequence Guides Outcomes

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.”

Mind Spiritual Found Understanding Holy Capable Scripture Compare Passages Anxious Holy Scriptures Comprehending Spiritual Truth True Understanding

Author:Origen

“Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?”

Ifs Believe Children Made Death Religion Understanding Christ Prayer Known Capable Standards Devil Masterpiece

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.”

“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.”

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

Thinking Love Wisdom Understanding Knowing Mystery Love You Keys Capable Knowing Things Learning Everything

Author:Paulo Coelho

“... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.”

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Author:Julian of Norwich

“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.”

Mind Humans Reason Understanding Loneliness Solitude Capable Difficulty Absolutes Spokes Sophisticated Impossibility Misunderstood Straws

Book:Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.”

Humans Language Understanding Rich Identity Expression Capable Agents Defining Acquisition Human Language

Book:The Ethics of Authenticity

Source: The Ethics of Authenticity

“The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.”

Ifs Way Mind May Done Able Understanding Capable Female Difficulty Communicate Right Way Geometry Analytics Female Mind

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.”

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Book:Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.”

Giving Next Understanding Answers Steps Discipline Capable Practicals Enjoyment Application Live In The Present Next Steps

Author:Alan Watts

“Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.”

World Ends Able Life Is Understanding Hours Ability Minutes One Day Capable Eternity Going Away Distraction Life Is Short Hinder

Book:The Orange Girl

Source: The Orange Girl

“A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.”

“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”

People Love Two Understanding Sin Worst Human Nature Wise Words Capable Forgiveness Forgiving True Love Categories Divided Capacity To Love Liking Someone

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.”

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Author:Brad Pitt

“I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time."”

People Men Want Mean Understanding Prayer Consciousness Laughing Evolution Calling Highest Capable Laughter Prayer Time

Author:Rajneesh