“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.” GivingGrowsUnderstandingMaterialsHappeningsGive MeDeeperMake SenseDeeper Understanding Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.” PeopleThinkingWayWantPlayHelpingUnderstandingFootballJudgmentHappeningsScreensUnfoldingYes You CanWatching Football Author:David Gergen
“I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.” KnowsWantGivingDoeTwoImportantSoulMomentsAsksUnderstandingLevelsAwarenessRight NowHappeningsBasesDeeperMy SoulSecondsWant MeConfronting Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.” PeopleWorldSufferingUnderstandingChallengesPoorClassOne ThingAwarenessStudentsCollegeSeriousHappeningsComplexesCome UpDebtAround The WorldDirtOppressedLoanCollege Students Author:Bell Hooks
“The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.” UnderstandingTermPracticeHappeningsCome UpSurfaceFederalismBelow The Surface Author:Gar Alperovitz
“My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.” PeopleThinkingMenGivingHardRealityMotherUnderstandingRoomsHappeningsImprovementHeyGuidanceAlways Room For ImprovementRoom For Improvement Author:Stevie Wonder
“Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.” CharacterHappensBeautifulChoicesUnderstandingHigherHappeningsSurfaceCoreWho We AreWhatever Happens Author:Richard Bach
“Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShouldStillsSchoolUnderstandingDependsDemandHappeningsShould HaveMindsetMathWhat You WantLegislationSegregation Author:Deborah Meier
“The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.” DoeTodayScienceUniverseForceUnderstandingSpaceExistenceFieldsStrangeInvolvedDemandHappeningsIndependentInsightPhysicsSatisfiedObservationTime And SpaceObserversParticlesGeometry Author:John P. Wheeler III
“...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.” IfsMenYearsPastUnderstandingHappeningsThanksSimilarity Author:Marcus Aurelius
“The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.” WayUnderstandingPhotographyHappeningsAimAnother WayArticulation Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.” ThinkingDoneBodyUnderstandingEnvironmentSeaLandHappeningsGreedHungerCancerProfitRealizationImplicationsCarelessFast PacedLand And Sea Author:Eve Ensler
“I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.” KnowsMeanEndsWantedArtistFoundUnderstandingSoundMy OwnRecordsHeardFieldsCreatingHappeningsBackgroundsFascinatedMeans To An EndUnderstanding Everything Author:Emily Lazar
“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldMeanSometimesBigsCertainFallUnderstandingChurchDealsCommonCitiesWonderEventsHappeningsConfusionFrustrationWorking ItRefugeBig DealAlways Working Author:Michael Emerson
“I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.” ThinkingLooksLongSeemsPastDifficultUnderstandingTermChangedHappeningsLong TermShort TermTime PassesLetting Things Go Author:Moby
“The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.” WorldImportantHelpingValuesNationsUnderstandingDifferencesQualityClearSecurityHappeningsEvidenceImportanceArmyIndependentElectionChinaCoreProceduresQuality Of LifeTransparencyJudicialCore ValuesJudicial System Author:Ai Weiwei
“What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those things are coming out of state legislatures, and some of the laws on reproduction stuff is coming out of city council, and so what's getting at me is the fact that there's just a fundamental lack of understanding that these laws are happening and being created by people who often won by ten votes in a midterm election.” PeopleStatesFactsLawStuffUnderstandingCitiesRightsTenHappeningsRedVoteElectionFundamentalsAbortionVotingComing OutCouncilLegislatureReproductionRadarRight To VotePrioritizeLack Of UnderstandingAbortion RightsState LegislaturesMidtermsCity CouncilMidterm Elections Author:Lizz Winstead
“We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.” UnderstandingHappeningsThings HappenBad ThingsBad Things Happen Author:Jeppe Hein
“If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.” IfsGivingHumansLongStillsImportantFeelingsSpiritualUnderstandingRolesSupportPathEvolutionHappeningsEvolveHuman LifeImperfectionSpiritual PathHumannessSupport SystemsInner FeelingsHumanness Is Author:Christine McCormick Day
“There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.” WayFormUniverseEnergyUnderstandingCommunityRolesPlanetsHappeningsRevelationsCommunionPreciseAccordAcceleration Author:Christine McCormick Day
“I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates me to dig deeper into what I've been doing all of this time, to find new ways and also to get over the thought that it's not happening.” WayUnderstandingInterestLevelsListeningHappeningsDeeperNew WaysImpressedGet OverDig Deep Author:Pauline Oliveros
“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.” WantTryingLooksHappensTodayUnderstandingTomorrowHappeningsCarpe Diem Author:Omar Khayyam
“Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.” UseUnderstandingExampleHappeningsConsequenceInstrumentsSurpriseUnusualAnticipationGreat Writers Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.” PeopleWorldWayMadeBodyRealityLeftUnderstandingViewsPartyBehindsAcceptingEventsHappeningsBirdHarmSaneGrainIncapableCornViolationWorld ViewLack Of Understanding Author:George Orwell
“Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.” WayFeltUnderstandingForeverHavensWindHappeningsMutualMutual UnderstandingPerfect Chemistry Book:Perfect Chemistry Source: Perfect Chemistry