“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.” MenHeartWarHelpingUnderstandingSimpleForeverGrowingExpressionReturnLimitsElementsMusic IsMadnessCrueltyRangeConceptionBrotherhoodReplacedSpontaneousImpulsiveBrotherhood Of Man Author:Leopold Stokowski
“The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.” LittlesBookFormUnderstandingReligiousWrittenFieldsSceneElementsMajorsUniqueAspectAccountsTablesPhotographLandscapeContributionMapsLastingChicagoUrbanSurveysOverlookedMetropolisAmerican Landscape Author:Peter Haggett
“The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding.” WorldRealityUnderstandingViewsInvolvedElementsOriginalsPhotographPoint Of ViewRelateSurroundingsDetached Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.” ThinkingUnderstandingTeachInfluenceDevelopmentDisciplineBandElementsArmy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of deceit in selling the photographs as such” FirstsYoungUnderstandingElementsExtraordinaryPhotographSellingDeceitSessionBeckhamCameraman Book:On Beckham Source: On Beckham
“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.” IfsWayShouldMeanSelfCountryHomeRememberPoliticalOpportunityLanguageUnderstandingCuttingMissingEssentialsElementsDiversityRegardOneselfMutualDesirableImaginativeAttainmentRealisationBetter FutureCultural DiversitySelf UnderstandingEnhancementMutual Understanding Author:Seamus Heaney
“... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.” FirstsPersonsRealCharacterFeelingsJoyUnderstandingEmotionFictionEssentialsElementsImprovementNovelistsMisfortunesEvokeFactualReal PersonSimplificationSuppressing Author:Marcel Proust
“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.” IfsEndsEarthHumanityCausesUnderstandingAbilitySpaceUnitedCreativeSeeingVictoryElementsResourcesDestructionUnityHearingAll TimeThanksConfusedDelusionDestroyingHumankindAgain And AgainTime And SpaceGrandioseUnderstanding Each Other Author:Stefan Zweig
“When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.” KnowsHumansWarEnoughActionDiesUnderstandingSidesRaceOne DayElementsDestructionTablesSurpriseDefenseErasHuman RaceConformBoth SidesConferencesHostilityReciprocalArmamentOutbreaksElement Of Surprise Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.” ImportantNightUnderstandingKeysThousandElementsEroticOne Night Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun
“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.” ThinkingDoeWholeUnderstandingElementsUnderstoodIncreaseExpandingReducingSystems Thinking Author:Russell L. Ackoff
“I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.” PeopleThinkingAbleUnderstandingTalkingDemocracyCenturyFiguresElements20th CenturyElevating Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentWholeCultureProcessUnderstandingTermRaceConsciousnessSituationProducePlanetsCivilizationElementsWestTensionPotEasternMulticulturalismComprehensiveMeltingFractionsIntegratingDominanceMelting Pot Author:Gilberto Gil
“Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.” KnowsShouldImportantAbleUnderstandingTermResultsTeacherWeekStudentsParticularElementsWeakInstructionAlignmentAssessmentCurriculumLearning ExperienceSpecificity Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.” MenTogetherUnderstandingGenerationsDependsCivilizationElementsTraditionBoundsGoldenLinksVitalityRenaissance Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses