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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
Danica McKellar

Problem, Easy, Makes

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

Great, Understand, Between

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.
Annie Lennox

Power, Place, Word

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham

Talk, Individual, Community

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
John Podhoretz

True, Dark, After

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
Laurence Sterne

Heart, Before, Judgment

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.
Sienna Miller

Sometimes, Superior, Situations

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington

Success, Failure, Sometimes

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Whole, Accept

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
Glenn Beck

Success, Failure, Sweetness

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
Samuel Richardson

Men, Wife, Afraid

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman

Poetry, May, Perfect

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
Zooey Deschanel

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
Ron Fournier

Political, Fact, Getting

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles

Men, Wisdom, Old

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
Maurice Sendak

Children, Country, Complexity

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
Tony Campolo

Religion, Nature, Human

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Vernon Howard

Negative, Emotions, Clear

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
Barbara Jordan

Women, Cannot, Compassion

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
Yo-Yo Ma

Learning, Put, Else

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno

Rather, Anyone, Memory

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
Salman Rushdie

Good, History, Evil

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.
Jennifer Lopez

Unless, Exist, Committed

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder

Happiness, God, Best

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski

Truth, Side, Sword

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

Alone, Woman, Doubt

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
Benjamin Carson

Education, Knowledge, True

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Craig T. Nelson

Power, Give, Through

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
Katherine Heigl

Saying, Thinking, Opinion

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Tony Blair

Choice, Minds, Point

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