Understanding Quotes

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.