Best Understanding Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 40

“A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.”

World Mean Ideas Understanding Community Common Communication Ideals Tradition Wave Dialogue Resolution Globes Facility Win Win Means Of Communication Conflicting Ideas

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.”

Understanding Goal Company Strategy Comparison Great Company Bravado Good To Great

Author:James C. Collins

“A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.”

“Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.”

People Want Past Understanding Rage Tricks Drunk Bored Serene

Book:The Subterraneans

Source: The Subterraneans

“Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.”

Thinking Matter Use Understanding Loss Pay Attention Gains Pay Attention Perceive Judgement Worldly Intuitive Trifles Gains And Losses

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.”

Men World Different Problem Reality Moving Language Process Understanding Growing Mystery Rocks Flow Ears Lays Solve Coffee Rulers Finest Mystery Of Life Growing Things

Author:Frank Herbert

“Remember, then, that you received a spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear. Keep safe what you received. God the Father sealed you, Christ the Lord strengthened you and sent the Spirit into your hearts as the pledge of what is to come.”

Heart Remember Spiritual Spirit Father Understanding Christ Lord Holy Safe Reverence Pledge Seals

Author:Ambrose

“The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.”

Men Language Understanding Loses Affection Corruption Dues Manifest Fraud Due Time

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.”

Understanding Metaphor Code Riddle Unraveling

Author:Max Black

“The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.”

People World Ends Helping Together Culture Understanding Study Diversity Appreciate Bridges Complexity Maps Our World Divides Continents Geography Cultural Diversity Memorizing

Author:Barack Obama

“It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.”

Understanding Virtue Greatness Highest Bases Proof

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.”

Life Is Understanding Essence Disappear Division Wholeness Arbitrary Grandeur Essence Of Life

Author:Vimala Thakar

“It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life, not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding.”

Giving Humans Whole Spiritual Understanding Voice Knowing Aspect Conviction Intuitive Joining Shattered Inner Voice Joining In

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you.”

Should May Understanding Focus Customers Marvelous Equipment Binding

Author:John Romero

“Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly, to gain the development and enlarged understanding which always follow earnest service in a responsible position. It is an honorable privilege and a personal benefit to be allowed to serve in an official position in the Church; and an office, whatever it may be, should be accepted in a spirit of grateful appreciation.”

“The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.”

Understanding Views Quality Essentials Point Of View Neighbor Mutual Good Will Sympathetic Cornerstones Americanism Mutual Understanding Good Neighbor

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“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.”

Thinking Doe Whole Understanding Elements Understood Increase Expanding Reducing Systems Thinking

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Problem Understanding Rooms Pieces Paper Cat Down And Get Up Settling Acquire Serenity Desks Lamps Serene Settling Down

Author:Muriel Spark

“Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.”

Values Understanding Achieve Weakness Excellence Contribution Strength And Weakness Deep Understanding

Book:Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review

Source: Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review

“Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.”

Knows Feelings Past Understanding Pressure Posts Pretending Exes Pulse Illumination

Book:Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays

Source: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays

“Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are.”

Thinking Knows Persons Ideas Might Understanding Loses Exciting Who You Are Track Expected Wiser Just Listen Kinder Preconceptions Exciting Things

Author:Byron Katie

“Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.”

Form Understanding Interest Planets Highest Tolerance Understanding Love

Author:U Thant

“Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”

Ifs Way Doe Self Reason Understanding Animal Example Civilization Tests Instinct Western Serving Relative Defining Convenient Western Civilization Self Serving

Book:Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

Source: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

“Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.”

Needs Looks Suffering Order Understanding Love Is Love You Aspiration One You Love

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.”

Bigs Understanding Marketing Data

Author:Jay Baer

“Stop creating reports, and start creating understanding.”

Understanding Creating Reports

Author:Jay Baer

“There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.”

Understanding Responsible Here And Now

Author:Brad Pitt

“Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.”

Needs Wells Understanding Harm Agreement

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.”

Problem Understanding Bigger Relation Bigger Problems

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”

Life Truth Life Is Lying Understanding Doors Inspirational Life Preparation

Author:Hypatia

“All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.”

“When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.”

Knows Needs Hands Jesus Understanding Powerful Lord Worry Focus Return Lays

Author:Tim Salmon

“Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.”

Order Understanding Virtue Achieve Morality Enlightenment Mystical Favour Muddle

Author:Aleister Crowley

“If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see”

Ifs Looks Kind Mean Suffering Energy Understanding Simple Compassion Arise Understanding And Compassion

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering”

Ifs Kind Two Suffering Grows Understanding Flower And Love Village Mud Summertime Lotuses Plums Understanding And Love Lotus Flower

Author:Nhat Hanh

“What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.”

Men Should Speak Understanding Fire Logic Theology Preaching Pulpit True Understanding

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.”

Ideas Life Is Suffering Understanding This Life Grain

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.”

Giving May Helping Faces Humanity Understanding Common Program Logic Asking Submit Common Humanity

Book:The Legacy of the Civil War

Source: The Legacy of the Civil War

“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

“Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.”

Firsts Care Nations Understanding Bases Take Care Petunias

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary for their salvation, which, being far above man's understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit.”

Thinking Men Mean Made Spirit Understanding Holy Authority Salvation Scripture Holy Spirit Revelations Convince Can Not Credible Holy Scriptures

Author:Galileo Galilei

“We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.”

Understanding Senses Distinguished Brutes

Book:The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes

Source: The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes

“It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.”