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Quotes About Understanding

?omen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.
~ Marisa Miller
God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
~ Mark Twain
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
~ Matthew Tobin Anderson
Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.
~ Max De Pree
Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
~ Meryl Streep
Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.
~ Michael Silverblatt
In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike, if you really don't understand all that, you don't need to put it on there."
~ Mike Royer
If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.
~ Mireille Enos
When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.
~ Myrtle Reed
I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
~ Nadine Labaki
What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.
~ Napoleon Hill
I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.
~ Neil Gaiman
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.
~ Nick Earls
I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.
~ Nigel Kneale
If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)
~ Nora Roberts
You have to make people understand that things cost something. Otherwise it seems like they have no value. I can't just be giving away rabbits. No. It costs five bucks, so make it work for you.
~ Novella Carpenter
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
~ Pamela Stephenson
The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
~ Paul Simon
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.
~ Paul Theroux
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.
~ Pauline Kael
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.
~ Pema Chodron