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“Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She's just got some ethereal grace and elegance that's beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She's just exquisite. She's otherworldly.”

Knows Want Humans Understanding Grace Human Nature Elegance Exquisite Ethereal Mesmerizing Understanding Why

Author:Brad Pitt

“The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.”

Ifs Understanding Sides Prove Careful Ambiguity Search For Truth Cyberspace Pedants Wormholes

Author:Mike Rowe

“History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.”

“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.”

Mind Helping Belief Understanding Lines Simple Views Balance Intellectual Solutions Faults Point Of View Absence Concentration Remedy Imaginative One Line Simple Solutions

Author:Geoffrey Elton

“...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.”

Pain Process Understanding Approach Openness

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“...realize in your daily life that 'matter' is merely an aggregation of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind; that your environment, your success, your happiness, are all of your own making... All wealth depends upon a clear understanding of the fact that mind- thought - is the only creator. The great business of life is thinking. Control your thoughts and you control circumstance.”

“Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.”

Needs Spiritual Understanding Compassion Violence Capacity Appreciate Faults Delight Righteousness Behaviour Fortitude Advancement Pardon Non Violence Renunciation Invaluable

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.”

Thinking Way Feels Heart Doe Feelings Action Values Understanding Love Is Results Principles Five Four Violence Produce Flow Angry Currents Our Thoughts Non Violence Right Action

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.”

Thinking Humans Action Values Speak Understanding Love Is Results Violence Hatred Bases Primaries Non Violence Practise Human Values Right Conduct

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.”

Reality Understanding Type Arise Reducing

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“O my Savior...teach me to pray; implant in me all the dispositions needful for the prayer of the Holy Spirit....Of what use is my prayer if the Holy Spirit does not pray with me? Come, Holy Spirit, come to dwell and work with me! Take possession of my understanding and of my will; govern my actions not only at the moment of prayer but at every moment.”

Ifs Doe Moments Use Action Spirit Understanding Prayer Teach Praying Holy Possession Holy Spirit Savior Disposition Implants

Author:Jean Grou

“I have to say, as much I am respectful of people's faith and the idea of it being necessary for them, but when it comes to the Catholic church as an organization I don't have one scintilla of compassion, understanding, anything. I just think they're the most heinous, corrupt, separatingly vile organization that's ever been on the planet.”

People Thinking Ideas Understanding Church Compassion Planets Organization Catholic Respectful Catholic Church

Author:Dylan Moran

“Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers”

“The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.”

Giving May Light Eye Stuff Understanding Imagination Rooms Darkness Land Brother Materials Pure Intellect Guides Labour Regions Belonging Territory

Book:The Imagination: And Other Essays

Source: The Imagination: And Other Essays

“Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.”

Heart Pain Understanding Honored

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.”

World Home Grows Understanding Leaving

Author:Huston Smith

“A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.”

Ifs Kind Understanding Space Fields Higher Highest Dimensions Enterprise Regions Finite Geometry

Author:Immanuel Kant

“All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.”

Fall Names Understanding Natural Categories Rooted Orderly

Author:Confucius

“American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.”

Understanding Views Biblical Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Jim DeMint

“Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.”

May Stills Belief Understanding Habit Expectations Relation

Author:David Hume

“Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.”

“When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.”

Men Understanding All Things Mere

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.”

World Understanding Memories Peculiar Imaginary Continents Rude Malady Parliamentary Imaginary World

Book:The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.”

Has Beens Body Understanding Infinite Add Immortality Mortality Sensations Craving Enjoyable

Author:Epicurus

“A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just do it. I believe in happy accidents and I'm not necessarily into actors getting the dialogue exactly as I wrote it; I'm much more into them understanding the motivations and have it come out in a natural way, and maybe catch something that I didn't expect.”

Way Firsts Believe Motivation Actors I Believe Understanding Natural I Believe In Accidents Dialogue Just Do It Analyzing Happy Accidents

Author:Storm Saulter

“With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.”

Want Real Character Process Understanding Fronts Personality Comfortable Cameras Casts What You Want Getting What You Want

Author:Charles Burnett

“For every teenager there are issues that make finding it hard. These girls are totally unique and totally like every teenager everywhere - in the world. They illuminate, beautifully, the universal search for identity that we all have. I hope that people come away from the film with a better understanding of themselves, and compassion for others.”

People World Hard Film Girl Understanding Compassion Issues Identity Findings Unique Universal Teenager Compassion For Others Search For Identity

Author:Linda Goldstein Knowlton

“Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.”

People Way Humans May Art Action Form Understanding Human Beings Journey Art Is Impact Obvious Who We Are Interpretation Mainstream Vacuums

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much as we can. We know where we're from and we have a certain kind of rhythm and understanding. Togetherness. As I get older it becomes more apparent that there is a community in this industry that is working together to rise up and fight against the misinterpretation of Hispanic and what it means to be a Latino-American nowadays.”

“Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.”

World Shows Asks Understanding Powerful Tools Maps Understanding The World

Author:Max Fisher

“There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.”

Thinking Long Understanding Term Accepting Class Harm Long Term American Life Fixture

Author:Richard Benjamin

“Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.”

Next Understanding Decision Views Cutting Plans Source Authority Standards Video Employment Titles Merit Colleagues Participation Associates Business Plan Audio

Author:Mitchell Baker

“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.”

Different Would Be Kids Culture Fighting Understanding Teacher Groups Chicago Lumps Vietnamese Administrators Fighting Each Other

Author:Malik Yusef

“To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.”

Thinking World Want Ideas Jobs Political Understanding Week Draws Changing The World Cartoon Contradictory Political Cartoons

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other.”

People Hard Helping Dream Hate Understanding Hard Work Determination And Love Resilience Excitement Dedication American Dream Hard Work And Dedication

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.”

World Littles Together Law Bits Understanding Principles Little Bit Cooking Oil Physics Cooks Chemistry Juice Lemons Laws Of Physics Mayonnaise Whisk Lemon Juice

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”

Writing Trying Children Stories Games Understanding Events Corners Fragments Around The Corner

Author:Gregory Allen Howard

“The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.”

People Thinking Way Should Ideas Country Might Understanding Term Concepts Population Unifying Unclear Top Down

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.”

People Way Understanding Sense Of Humor Lacking Defective

Author:Joe Frank

“A mind in control is always better than a mind out of control. For one thing, a controlled mind can learn much better and go much further than a chaotic one. A person with a steady-state mind has the potential to exit this life with a much greater understanding than someone who is continually learning and forgetting, gaining and misplacing knowledge.”

Mind Persons States Understanding Forget Greater One Thing This Life Controlled Steady Chaotic Exit Continually Learning

Author:Jim Woodring

“People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart thing for such a person to do is to let go of the fun of the art and get into the hard work of attaining and understanding that higher reality, unmixed with worldly games.”

People Wells Persons Art Hard Reality Games Fun Understanding Hard Work Fine Higher Letting Go Smart Art Is Worldly

Author:Jim Woodring

“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”

People Giving Understanding Support Groups Influence Products Intellectual Give Me Prison Notebook Hegemony Influencing People

Author:Okky Madasari

“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.”

Understanding Acquisition

Author:Vernon Howard

“If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.”

Ifs Wells Understanding Rude Being Rude

Author:David Bentley

“I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.”

Thinking World Country Understanding Decision Levels Clear Progress Highest Around The World Recognition Discussion Decision Making Business Woman

Author:Quentin Bryce

“As we move forward into this 21st century, we encourage all of you to take a positive step toward universal understanding. Touch people with the message of love. Pray for the peace and happiness of people in all other lands and cultures. Make a commitment to world peace by honoring the earth, honoring its people, and celebrating the unity of the human spirit.”

“Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.”

Understanding Steps Diversity Crucial Trusting Each Other

Book:Leadership is an Art

Source: Leadership is an Art

“Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.”

Art Understanding Art Is

Author:Antony Gormley

“I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.”

Needs Humans Life Is Understanding Human Beings Design Listening Speech Understood Essence Aim

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.”

Needs Choices Nations Understanding Economic Policy Cost Climate

Author:Ted Cruz

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