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“I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.”

Way Wells Enjoy Strange Understood Hungry Evening Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense.”

Wells Made Sometimes Moving Fighting Mistake Cases Heard Movement Understood Extremes Opponents Nonsense Interpretation

Author:Kenwa Mabuni

“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”

Humans Wells Suffering Position Masters Walking Sorrow Eating Understood Window Opening

Author:W. H. Auden

“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.”

Wells Home Might Law Mother Force Nature Walks Doors Fields Understood Abundance Bless Yield Shelter Penalties Laws Of Nature Relentless Mother Nature Benevolent Barns

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“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 never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"”

Wells Young Special Son Understood Atheist Redemption Treatment Prodigals Prodigal Son Special Treatment

Author:Ricky Gervais

“It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Kind Enough Stories Seems Remember Names Water Common Break Example Listening Understood Aspect Medicine Ancient Isolation Commandments Fever Precaution

Author:Mark Nepo

“[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.”

Ifs Wells Understood Scripture Doctrine Copernicus

Author:Galileo Galilei

“I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells May Stills Government Christian Courses Games Term Willing Understood Forgiving Patient Leaving Available Surrender Cards Repentance

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.”

Ifs Wells Left Creativity Fire Understood Invention Contradiction Sparks Orthodoxy Graveyard

Book:Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah

“The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.”

Wells Understood Accounts Transformation Flesh Peculiar Coins Grasping Extravagance Misers Substitution Spendthrift

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.”

Wells Written Effects Ought Understood Agreement Contracts

Book:The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

Source: The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

“Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.”

Wells Desire Understanding Break Communication Understood

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.”

“When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.”

Wells Purpose Speak Fine Speech Understood Diction

Author:Moliere

“It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.”

Men Wells Reason Shows Feelings Might Impossible Understood Argument Pressure Fingers Spread Resistance Enthusiasm Distinction Endeavor Combat Elude

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

“I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.”

Wells War Mother Understood Coffee Cups Veteran Coffee Cup Guerrillas

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.”

Needs Wells Looks Ends Values Strong Company Huge Balance Understood Focused Compare Drivers Very Strong Sheets Generic Balance Sheets

Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.”

Wells Done Values Secret Emotion Understood Perceive

Book:The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

Source: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

“The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.”

Wells Interest Crime Demand Understood Offense Equity

Author:African Spir

“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.”

Thinking Years Wells Long Reason Action Brain Silence Millions Effects Civilization Ocean Understood Presses Notion Symbols Vanity Cosmic Long Ago Sage Yogi Unbreakable Omniscience Solaris

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.”

“The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.”

Ifs Wells Divine Understood Greek Consistent Envious Unkind Malicious Capricious

Author:Stephen Fry

“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”

“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

People Ifs Wells Would Be Chance Results Amount Lucky Picks Understood Incredibles Investing Active Wide Managers Outcomes Distribution Skeptical Unlucky Portfolios

Author:Eugene Fama

“A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.”

Wells Trump Understood Creator Appeals Hypothesis Selection Caprice Inscrutable

Book:Why Evolution Is True

Source: Why Evolution Is True

“At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.”

Mind Wells Heart May Littles Night Sleep Animal Morning Too Much Holy Bed Understood Scripture Holy Scriptures Remnants

Author:Martin Luther

“I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.”

Wells Doe Soul Shows Grace Understood Resistance Simplest God's Love

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.”

People Wells Hard America Values Nations Responsibility Creativity Hard Work Politician Understood Innovation Track Personal Responsibility Great Nations Right Track

Author:Benjamin Carson

“The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.”

Wells Real Used Artist Three Effects Painting Wall Drama Understood Enormous Flats Niche Phenomenal

Author:Werner Herzog

“Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.”

Wells Mean Home Suffering Loses Powerful Technology Rich Violence Modern Understood Soil September Monopoly September 11 Atrocities Modern Technology

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.”

Wells Body Mother Understood Spread Godly Malignancy

Author:Delores Phillips

“Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.”

Men Wells Example Authority Understood Timely Posthumous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I recognized that there are some well-known, little understood, and seldom practiced laws that we must live by if we wish to find peace within or without. Included are the laws that evil can only be overcome by good; that only good means can attain a good end; that those who do unloving things hurt themselves spiritually.”

Ifs Wells Mean Littles Ends Law Evil Wish Hurt Known Understood Overcoming Live By Well Known Finding Peace Peace Within

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.”

Wells May Understanding Knowing Understood Lure Unknowing Knowing And Understanding

Book:Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

Source: Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

“I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.”

Firsts Wells Felt Understood Court British Excellent Britain Concerts Opera Rapport Hamptons

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Jobs President Safe Understood Constitution

Author:Andrew Napolitano

“I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.”

People Ifs Men Should Wells Said Use Able Greater Regret Genius Taxes Understood Claims Income Defined Income Tax I Regret Castes

Author:Otto Weininger

“Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Problem Know How Computer Understood Complexes Computer Science Complex Systems

Author:Matt Blaze

“He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.”

Wells Use Care Able School Father Deals Pieces Player Modern Theory Ought Kings Understood Advantage Weak Take Care Chess Squares

Author:Bobby Fischer

“[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.”

Wells Understood Jazz Violin

Author:Stephane Grappelli

“The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.”

People Wells States Challenges Church United United States Understood Staying Detached

Author:Pope Francis

“Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.”

Way Wells Natural Levels Principles Evolution Understood Idle Hypothesis Selection Variation Natural Selection

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the buyability of the regional press. Now we, too, have hired that clapped-out old floozy, Miss Rosie Scenario, and sent her whoring through the streets.”

Wells Made Use Streets Middle Missing Figures Understood Presses East Familiar Journalist Regimes Middle East Saddam Hussein Scenarios Rosie

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.”

“That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.”

Ifs Way Wells Seems Language Music Is Understood Universal Adages Universal Language Really True

Author:William Fitzsimmons

“But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.”

Ifs Wells Art Book Humanity Talking New York Perception Understood Presses Instance Phenomenology

Author:Robert Barry

“I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.”

Years Wells School Artist Powerful Creating Understood Years Ago Eight Brands Narrative Empowering Platforms Explaining Lectures Implications Harvard Oxford Stanford Business School

Author:MC Hammer

“We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.”

Knows Wells Understanding Subjects Masters Understood

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.”

Wells Moments Political Religious Party Behinds Violence Understood Advantage Blame Denial Minorities Immigrants Cycles Phenomenon Outsiders Political Parties Isms Scapegoat

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky