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“Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.”

Thinking Difficult Understanding Circumstances Profound Difficult Circumstances

Author:Mo Yan

“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

Helping Problem Science Used Difficult Understanding Simple Mathematics Method Seeking Characteristics Physicist Difficult Problems Seeking Help

Author:John von Neumann

“It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”

Difficult Understanding Impossible Judging

Author:Odilon Redon

“Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.”

Grows Difficult Understanding Concepts Definitions Temporary Knowledge And Understanding

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.”

People Two Real Moments Together Difficult Understanding Marriage Quiet Conversation Tasks Encouragement Expected Gestures Spontaneous Companionship Difficult Moments Small Gifts

Book:We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

Source: We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

“Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.”

People Ifs Want Important Difficult Understanding Special Subjects Overcoming Difficulty Obvious Intellect Significant Instruction Contrast

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.”

Ifs Thinking World Difficult Understanding Issues Right Now Complexes Iran Controversy Korea North Korea Understanding The World

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.”

Art Hard Use Force Easy Difficult Understanding Achieve Hard Work Skills Training Art Is Martial Arts Comprehension Use Of Force

Book:Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.”

People Giving Art Artist Difficult Understanding Art Is Entertainment Buying New Artists Buying Art

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.”

Would Be Difficult Understanding Trust

Author:Mason Cooley

“I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change. When you're thinking that, you're not understanding what your nature is. All of us come from this place of well-being, love, and kindness. But we've taken on these other things, and we think that they're our nature. Our nature really is to be like God.”

Thinking Wells Difficult Understanding Common Kindness Taken Well Being Love And Kindness Memes

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.”

Thinking Way Humans Mean Doe War Difficult Understanding Human Beings Violence Active Obligation Resistance Temptation Aggressive Mistaken Injured Non Violence Vigilance Prerogative

Author:Judith Butler