Understanding Quotes

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Arlo Guthrie

Person, Challenge, Another

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
Paul Nurse

Life, Good, Health

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Paul Nurse

Great, Experience, Beautiful

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Wanted, Younger, Motivating

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.
Jane Siberry

Study, Universe, Found

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

Important, Priority, Lack

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
Carlos Fuentes

Good, Bad, Others

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Johan Huizinga

Means, Judgment, Standards

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
Valentino Rossi

Work, Time, Everything

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
Ken Burns

War, Country, America

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
Ken Burns

Time, Hard, Happened

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.
Tammy Bruce

Respect, Political, Honesty

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Mira Nair

Knowledge, Real, Humanity

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins

Means, Ideas, Community

We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Today, Problem, Rather

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold

Nature, Mean, Laws

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.
Criss Angel

Human, Brain, Down

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.
Criss Angel

Good, Pain, Moment

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
K. D. Lang

Hard, Why, Reason

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
George Etherege

Love, Good, Old

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
Ray Comfort

Faith, God, Men

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

Power, Through, Lightning

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Ludwig Quidde

Success, Fight, Law

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
Martin Sheen

Vision, Direction, Military

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.
Mariel Hemingway

Important, Class, Starting

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.
Laurieann Gibson

Amazing, Dance, Creative

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
Martin Van Buren

Good, Future, Desire

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock

Future, Learning, Achieve

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.
Angie Harmon

Greatest, Point, Republican

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
Ingrid Newkirk

Love, Change, Respect

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