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Quotes About Understanding

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
~ Louise Bourgeois
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
~ Peter Brook
If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.
~ Cicely Tyson
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
~ Peter Brook
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
~ Dale Carnegie
The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.
~ Drake
If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
~ Pope Gregory I
If they need my C.V., they don't know my work.
~ Grigori Perelman
When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.
~ DeVon Franklin
If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
~ Ben Kingsley
It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.
~ Neil Young
Communication works for those who work at it.
~ John Powell
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
~ Bryant H. McGill
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
~ David Lee Roth
From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
~ Robert Boyle
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
~ Christopher Alexander
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
~ Bruce Jenner
Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
~ Vanessa Paradis
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
~ Akio Morita
To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit.
~ Grayson Perry
I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.
~ Kim Delaney
They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
~ Terence McKenna