Understanding Quotes

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether it's 15th or even if I have a shot at a top 10, protecting that car so we can bring it back when we have to.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.

We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.