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“Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.”

Understanding Practice Speech Intellectual Following Cease

Author:Dogen

“Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them.”

Knows Men Art Understanding Space Mysterious Brotherhood Time And Space

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.”

Doe Reason Fear Understanding Secret Birth Goodness Life Changing Fearlessness

Author:Guy Finley

“Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.”

Art Understanding Progress Subjects Useless Sufficient Compensation Imbeciles Incomprehension

Author:Paul Cezanne

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.”

Wells Done Hands Understanding Taken Impossible Understood Reluctant Well Done

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Real Might Religion Understanding Chance Divine Ego Seconds Experiencing Something

Author:John Cleese

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.”

Ifs Want Firsts Helping Able Understanding Effects Painting Fats Caress Courtesans

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?”

Art Age Understanding Progress Understood Opposites Barbarians

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.”

Moments Facts Joy Understanding Natural Grief Accepting Support Dignity Rational Conclusion Certainty Vulnerability Misfortunes Compassionate Live In The Moment Unexpectedness

Author:Clark Moustakas

“I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.”

Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.”

Has Beens Understanding Can Do Moral Technology Ought Thanks Pace

Book:Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.”

Needs Mind Mean Book Understanding Strange Taste Library Librarian Greetings Brothels Pimping Punters

Author:Guy Browning

“My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.”

Thinking Want Persons Young Father Understanding Accepting Wise Please Criticism Critical Young Women Calculating

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.”

Thinking Should Heart Understanding Ought Ill Proof Good Heart Calumny Good Understanding Calumny Is

Author:Robert Emmet

“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.”

Giving Grows Understanding Materials Happenings Give Me Deeper Make Sense Deeper Understanding

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”

Ifs Left Given Understanding Clear Ready Understood Refuse Explanation Tolerate

Book:Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Source: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

“I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.”

Ifs Thinking Men Wells Important Facts Today Able Understanding Community Race Support He Man Communication Men And Women Appreciation Gender Boundaries

Author:Anita Hill

“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.”

“Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.”

People World Different Spiritual Culture Nations Understanding Window Bridges Mutual Reflecting Mutual Understanding Cultural Exchange

Author:Hu Jintao

“I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way”

People Thinking Way Real Understanding Honest Music Is Empathy Relate Good Understanding

Author:John Legend

“The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.”

Looks Art Understanding Understood Art Is Aspect Importance Proof Visuals Works Of Art

Author:Sol LeWitt

“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

“Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts”

World Facts Understanding Society Discovery Improvement

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

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

“Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.”

People Ifs Doe Shows Turns Understanding Born Arms Unions Misery West Communism Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Francois Mitterrand

“Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.”

Different Given Understanding Psychology Changed Concepts Patient Illness Technique Psychoanalysis Therapeutic Psychiatric Psychoanalytic

Author:Karl A. Menninger

“I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.”

Knows Trying Littles Art Understanding Creating Art Is Works Of Art Analogies

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.”

Understanding Company Technology Demand Intimate Contentment Intuitive Contention Sony

Author:Howard Stringer

“By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.”

Art Reality Artist Understanding Challenges Notion Accepted Translate Turmoil

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.”

Men Law Understanding Students Draws Laws Of Nature

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.”

Together Understanding Focus Perception

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.”

Understanding Tools

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”

World Reality Together Form Given Understanding Tasks Senses Realms Fullness Replicate

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.”

World Body Given Understanding Performances Harmony Aim Intention

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.”

Ifs World Understanding Community Money Pay Attention Brain Serious Scientist Investment Financial Wave Academia

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.”

Should Humans Heart Art Energy Understanding Skills Complexes Simplicity Stamina

Book:Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mind Understanding Creative Appreciate And Love Irrational Unpredictable Dna Creative People

Author:Bernard Arnault

“Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.”

Moving Understanding Results Shapes Each Day

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.”

People Heart Understanding Christ Divine And Love Ears Priests Compassionate Consolation Sympathetic Eucharist Understanding And Love

Author:Arthur Middleton

“Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.”

Understanding Green Approximation

Author:Nick Bantock

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.”

Reason Wisdom Understanding Loss Gains Dimensions Celebration Fullness

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.”

Kind Belief Understanding Principles Buddhism Conflict Traditional Make Sense Framework Basic Principles

Author:Richard Davidson

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.”

“Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.”

Persons Sometimes Past Understanding Gone Self Knowledge

Book:Reena and Other Stories

Source: Reena and Other Stories

“We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.”

Individual Social Understanding Environment Fit Seeking Welfare

Author:Robert E. Ornstein