Understanding Quotes

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
Fred Ward

Women, Sex, Trying

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
Xi Jinping

Hope, Friends, Between

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.
Hayden Christensen

Great, Yourself, Someone

I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.
Jeanne Phillips

School, Gay, Kids

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.
Danny Huston

Great, Acting, Reason

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'
John Searle

Word, Common, Fancy

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
John Searle

Two, Clear, Argument

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle

Nothing, Often, Cars

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Avi Arad

Life, Great, Real

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
Geoff Hoon

Freedom, Equality, Future

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
Moses Mendelssohn

Nothing, Sight, Analysis

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.
Stedman Graham

Life, Religion, Long

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.
Stedman Graham

Education, Freedom, Single

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor

Thinking, Fiction, Indeed

Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.
Tulsi Gabbard

America, American, Happens

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
Kenneth G. Wilson

Nature, Causes, Scientist

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
Edward Albert

Courage, Fear, Prayers

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.
Roland Allen

Life, Men, Experience

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
Aaron Klug

Living, Often, Results

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
Marcel Carne

Two, Understand, Speak

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
Haley Barbour

Peace, Smart, Country

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
George G. Simpson

Nature, Fire, Him

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

Everything, Key, Context

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.
Ben Edwards

Politics, Experience, Often

My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
Larry Wachowski

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Marc Bloch

History, Nor, Toward

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Amiri Baraka

Art, Important, Thought

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.
David Gower

Work, Happy, Hard

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
Charlie Gonzalez

Important, Nothing, Before

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
Pierre Laval

Peace, Victory, Result

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