Quotes About Understanding

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.