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Quotes About Understand

Ah, but, sir," said Lascelles, "it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.
~ Susanna Clarke
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
And if I have learned nothing else, it is to listen and to love: everyone.
~ Sylvia Plath
Você se esquece daquilo que escuta; você se lembra daquilo que vê; você entende aquilo que faz.
~ T. Harv Eker
As the soul leaves the body torn and bruised As the mind deserts the body it has used. I should find Some way incomparably light and deft, Some way we both should understand, Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.
~ T.S. Eliot
People who do not understand irony cannot understand fiction.
~ Tabish Khair
For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
~ Tahir Shah
Marmaduke's theory was that, as he couldn't understand Christianity, it was safe to premise that people whose religion was a mixture of degraded Buddhism and devilworship couldn't understand it either. So he founded a Buddhist mission, to teach 'em their own religion.
~ Talbot Mundy
There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.
~ Ted Dekker
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it's not on our side," Seth said. "Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. People who don't have them can't possibly understand.
~ Ted Dekker
For it is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done—the highest—so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
~ Julian of Norwich
But this is useless speculation, anyway: we can't decide that one thing happening control everything else in out life. Every choice is the result of other choices, which are a result of choices before that. We can't control what bodies we're born with or how people treat us because of them. Maybe the world is similarly out of our control. Small forces, large ones, one choice leading to another, a machine of causation beyond understand.
~ Julie Cohen
Rest assured that if the developers who are tasked with building the system do not understand and value the design, they will butcher it.
~ Juval Lowy
My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I'm happier with things.
~ K.J. Parker
In his speeches about the Institute, Oppenheimer continually emphasized that science needed the humanities to better understand its own character and consequences.
~ Kai Bird
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
~ Daniel Barenboim
Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.
~ Kevin Systrom
The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business.
~ Aliko Dangote
I want people to understand how money works and how people invest.
~ Bobby Wagner
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
~ John F. Kennedy
The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.
~ Edward Burtynsky
I got hundreds and hundreds of poisonous e-mails from Jews all over the world. I couldn't understand this hatred toward me. I fought against racism all my life. I was for Israel. I wrote 'Mauthausen.' After all that, how could I become from one day to the next an anti-Semite?
~ Mikis Theodorakis