Understanding Quotes - Page 36

• Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Progress, Mediocre

  "Brought to book" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Ronald Reagan's career was so unusual, so unprecedented, that this would be very interesting to learn, to gain understanding of his way of looking at the world.

  James M Strock

  Interesting, World, Unusual

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• Heaven Is Whenever - the Christian version of reward, the ultimate reward of heaven. I guess what I'm trying to say is this is happening every day. We're blessed always. There is struggle and there is suffering in our lives, but understanding that is part of our lives - a part that just is. Suffering is a part of the joy of life.

  Craig Finn

  Christian, Struggle, Blessed

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• I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world. I deliver to him this exquisite product that's been developed by my officers. He engages in a way that shows his understanding of the complexity. He asks really hard questions. He delivers policy outcomes based on the information that we provide him. My observation of the president is that, we deal in serious matters.

  Mike Pompeo

  President, World, Serious

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• Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines it, if not ruins it. That served a purpose. It suggested that we need a new language and we need a new way of understanding exactly how politics leaves people out, particularly young people.

  Henry Giroux

  Heart, People, Democracy

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• When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look at the rate of tax. The people who are rich pay a higher rate than you or I." Well, yeah, but if you don't have to pay taxes on a lot of your income, then your real tax rate is a lot lower. And if you're allowed to pay your taxes thirty years from now instead of today then you're a lot better off. People need to have a sophisticated understanding of how the system works to appreciate that the posted tax rate really has very little to do with the taxes people pay.

  David Cay Johnston

  Real, People, Appreciate

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• Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in ways that were never possible before and can bring a breadth of intelligence, and experiences to understanding the news we never had. And professional reporters and editors still have a unique role to play in triangulating those inputs as well as bringing three other distinct skills - access to interrogate people in power, exceptional storytelling skills, and a discipline of open minded, skeptical inquiry - which are not as likely to be found elsewhere.

  Tom Rosenstiel

  Unique, Discipline, People

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• There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they want Hollywood endings that tie everything together in the end and answer all of the questions. They are usually people on one extreme of the political spectrum or other and they haven't been happy because the film is not polemical enough on their side. They aren't usually people who aren't interested in understanding points of view that they disagree with - they just want to attack their opponents - and I'm ok with them not liking the film.

  Marshall Curry

  People, Political, Together

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• That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Decision, Information

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• I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Thinking, Keys

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• The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

  Dean Acheson

  Important, President, States

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• The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

  Alfred Adler

  Goal, Soul, Mind

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• In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

  Tim Allen

  Men, Years, Differences

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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, Management, Conquer

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

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• When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

  Antonin Artaud

  Life, Facts, Speak

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

  Michele Bachmann

  Teacher, Prayer, Heaven

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• We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Home, Media, Hands

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• Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

  Roland Barthes

  Literature, Trouble, Proof

  Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Scripture, Taught

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• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Self, People

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• So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

  Jello Biafra

  Band, Done, Behind My Back

  Interview with Scott Thill, www.popmatters.com. January 23, 2001.

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• 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

  Choices, Mind, Defeat

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

  Tony Blair

  Buddhism, Six, Foundation

  "Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

  Mary J. Blige

  Journey, Goes On, Able

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• Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

  Bono

  Thinking, Corporations, Politician

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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