Quotes About Understanding

common sense flies out the window as soon as love comes in through the door.

but then logic had never been my strong point.

It's always easy to be wise after the event.

It's in dreams more than anywhere else that you get to know people best -- along with all their weaknesses and their secrets.

It'th high time we tried getting Anabel on board with uth," said Grayson with his mouth so full that I could hardly make out what he was saying. I moved Lottie's leek and bacon tart out of his reach. "Sorry, I don't speak greedyguts-ish," I said as Grayson grunted in protest.

Charlotte faceva sempre quello che le dicevo. Tu invece no. E questo è molto scocciante. Però anche divertente. E dolce." Stavolta non fu solo il suo sguardo a farmi vacillare.

That's the trouble. It's really hard to understand if you haven't experienced it.

There could well be other people interested in your dreams. It's in dreams more than anywhere else that you get to know people best—along with all their weaknesses and their secrets.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

With every dog I trained or handled, and there were hundreds each year, I practiced the skill of not projecting a thought, intention, or expectation onto anything the dog might do. This allowed me to bypass thinking and let the dog's actions show me what was the immediate-moment energetic equation in what was happening before me.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn't help them, so you decided to love them instead.

But explanations don't change anything, do they? They don't make you feel any better. You either like something or you don't, and if you don't like it, then knowing why it happens doesn't make any difference—it's still going to happen and you're still not going to like it, so what's the point?

this is what i know it doesn't hurt any more this is

Leaders bring clarity and hope." No easy task in the vortex of VUCA. Johansen contends that we have "to flip the VUCA forces to terms that create possibilities and redefine VUCA as: Vision; Understanding; Clarity; Agility.

If you are confused by the underlying principles of quantum technology – you get it!

As often as not, a man who sticks at home knows next to nothing about his guest.

The most prolific and accomplished hunters were not the most bloodthirsty and indefatigable. They were the most cool and empathetic. They were the ones who were able to assimilate their quarry's mind-set--to see through the eyes of their prey and thus reliably predict its deft, innate trajectories of evasion.

If we need to press creases in reality to make sense of the world around us - turn grey into black and white - then how, precisely, do we know where to run our irons?

Books make us see in a way that casual immersion in the Internet, and the quicksilver virtual world it offers, doesn't.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

there's a certain wisdom in being skeptical. But we need to hold our skepticism lightly, with a willingness to explore before dismissing outright

Both ask you to look at the painful realities of life, to understand them, and to use this understanding as the foundation for developing peace, wisdom, faith, and compassion. Both systems culminate in an "awakening" or "enlightenment.

I understand that finance can be very complex.