Quotes About Grasp

The only way to understand fully is to become the object of our understanding.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Take things always by their smooth handle.

tightened my grasp.

haiku moment: that moment of absolute intensity when the poet's grasp of his intuition is complete, so that the image lives its own life. Such

Now, Audrey, to me secret: while I have days that I struggle, some pretty terrible days, it mean that I also have stunning days. I weigh them both on the same side of the scale, lesson you taught. Life is short. Life is fragile. I shall grasp it with both hands and hang on, trying always to find the joy.

We have to snatch the sun when we have it, don't we?

Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.

But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper?

We speak of time and mind, which do not easily yield to categories. We separate past and future and find that time is an amalgam of both. We separate good and evil and find that mind is an amalgam of both. To understand, we must grasp the whole.

'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.

I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.

She knows the poem.

all religions alike, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, are but so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite.

It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what's inside the box, how the mechanisms work.

They found it difficult to accept that their grasp was a little short. But

In the end it is those who derive consequences and seize the importance of the ideas, seeing their real value, who win the day. They are the ones who can talk about the subject.

The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.