Good Understanding Quotes

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

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• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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• Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

  Robert Emmet

  Heart, Thinking, Calumny Is

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• There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither.

  Plutarch

  Brother, Silly, Two

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.195

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• A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Ch. I., 1688.

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• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Strong, Men, Perfection

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• Ive learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Cutting, Years, Understanding

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• The prince in The Leopard was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.

  Luchino Visconti

  Strong, Stupid, Character

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• I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

  Laura Dern

  Responsibility, Understanding, Actors

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• I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

  Nina Jacobson

  Thinking, Careers, Perspective

  "EXCLUSIVE: Producer Nina Jacobson Talks The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

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• I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

  Dave Matthews

  Should Have, Understanding, Whole Life

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• I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Understanding, Has Beens

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.

  Lance Berkman

  Christian, College, Years

  "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

  George Sand

  Philosophy, Understanding, Style

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• Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.

  Daniel Horan

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

  John Legend

  Real, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Pain, Understanding, Management

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Thinking, Understanding

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

  Carl Sagan

  Wisdom, Understanding, Brain

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• Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

  Jonathan Swift

  Understanding, Together, World

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.426

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• We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Respect, Science, Intelligent

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Inspiring, Psychology

  "George Lucas". Book by Charles J. Shields, 2002.

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• I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Play, People

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.

  Andrew Tan

  Understanding, Challenges, Environmental

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