Quotes About Understanding

Mathematics consists of processes independent of the number. You must remove the number from your thinking and instead dwell on the idea and process of the underlying logic. The faster you do this, the quicker math will begin to make sense to you. Then maybe your life, but defiantly your grade, will get better.

There was to be no further talk of damning her eyes or of her interfering with his riding his own line. He was only too anxious to pilot her again if she would allow it. She for her part had no doubt that there at last she had found, at least so far as crossing a country went, the man she was looking for.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.

He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.

Setelah manusia menghasilkan banyak uang, dia biasanya menjadi pendengar yang buruk.

it is important to understand the purpose of criticism. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal of criticism or discipline is improvement. You must keep that in mind and try to the best of your ability to use tact.

Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.

It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.

There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained when we give them to others.

reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.

Why does the person with the least to say usually take the longest to say it?

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

when we are out of sympathy with the young, our work in this world is over.

And I'd be dead , but by God's grace Drive on, don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on

If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

She knew her cow-boy lover, with all that he lacked, to be more than ever she could be, with all that she had. He was her worshipper still, but her master, too.

I didn't mean any harm.' For who truly means harm in all this world.

Eg forstår så lite. Og etter som åra går, så forstår eg mindre og mindre. Det er sant. Men også det motsette er sant, at eg etter som åra går, forstår meir og meir. Ja, det er også sant at eg etter som åra går, forstår veldig mykje, nesten skremmande mykje. Eg kan nesten bli matt av kor lite eg forstår og nesten bli skremd av kor mykje eg forstår.

You could go along for years thinking you knew a person's story and then come upon a chapter that knocked your socks off.

Close the book. Read the title. Read the title again. Nuff said.

To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.