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Quotes About Understanding

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out.
~ Dick Latvala
I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
~ Gabrielle Union
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
~ Ramona Koval
What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
~ Hannah Arendt
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.
~ Henry Reed
Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.
~ Pope Francis
As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
~ Rachel Weisz
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
~ Jacques Barzun
To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
~ John Dewey
...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.
~ John Green
Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.
~ John C. Maxwell
One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.
~ John W. Gardner
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.
~ Tina Fey
We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.
~ Julian Jaynes
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
~ William Feather
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.
~ M.I.A.
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Everyone's entitled to their own experience.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited
~ Marianne Williamson
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.
~ Mark Batterson
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
~ Mark Haddon
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
~ Maurice Sendak