Quotes About Understanding

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead." Moiraine nodded. Surrender after you are dead. Yes.

Only there was so much to learn, and it sometimes seemed a lifetime would be too short to learn it. Her

As a novice, she understood things that most Aes Sedai had never learned -- or had forgotten the moment they took the shawl. How to be humble when necessary, how to take a punishment, how to know when you needed to learn rather than pretend you already knew.

A baffled look passed between Nynaeve and Elayne. What was his point? Everyone knew that a man did not achieve his proper wits, such as they were, until ten years later than a woman.

in her eyes. Neither

incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.

The first step to creating something was to figure out its parts. Master Luhhan had taught Perrin that on his first day at the forge. You couldn't make a spade without understanding how the handle fit to the blade. You couldn't make a hinge without knowing how the two leaves moved with the pin. You couldn't even make a nail without knowing its parts: head, shaft, point. Understand the pieces, Perrin.

Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile.

I understand, Egwene thought. I didn't realize what the Aiel did. I assumed that I just had to be harder, and that was what would teach me to laugh at pain. But it's not hardness at all. It's not strength that makes me laugh. It's understanding.

me, and went away." "They looked at you," Mat said with a grin, "like you

Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the audience of this tale, numbers still are attached to objects.

If you look at zero, you see nothing ; but look through it and you will see the world.

If you want to understand another person in some fundamental way you must know where the person is in his or her evolution...the way in which the person is settling the issue of what is 'self' and what is 'other' essentially defines the underlying logic (or 'psychologic') of the person's meanings.

Instead of regarding them as things that just need to go away, we look at the behaviors as a precious resource, valuable information that can be mined to develop a more satisfying picture of what may really be happening. Another

You and Carl and this new baby are all I have left in this world. You don't have to be perfect. I know what you did. I understand why you did it. It's taken me a long time but I finally understand. I just don't need to hear you say it. I can't hear you say it.

Know a little about a lot.

Just be an observer, not a reactor, to your emotions.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

Si logras ver lo que la mayoría pasa por alto, entenderás mejor cómo se juega el verdadero juego del dinero.

Intelligence is the ability to take information and make it meaningful.

In accounting', rich dad would say, 'It's not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It's just like words. It's not the words, but the story the words are telling you.

tienes que saber la diferencia entre un cheque de nómina y el flujo de efectivo porque, en lo que se refiere a la educación, son conceptos opuestos.

What intensifies fear and desire is ignorance.