Understanding Quotes - Page 38

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

  Zooey Deschanel

  Effort, Be Kind, Stills

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• There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

  Fred Durst

  Art, People, Use

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• The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Community, Mind, Tasks

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• It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

  Umberto Eco

  Roots, Differences, People

  "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

  Julius Erving

  Moving, Trying, Gains

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• I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Hatred

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• Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

  Richard Eyre

  Art, Eye, Empathy

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Muhammad, Attempting

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• I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Holes, Reconciliation

  The New York Times, September 12, 1974.

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• 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, Criticism, Dynamics

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• My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

  Al Franken

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

  Al Franken

  Mean, Attention, World

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.31, Penguin

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• We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, People, Growth

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• If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

  Al Gore

  Human Nature, Optimist, Bases

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Principles, Construction

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

  Brian Greene

  Believe, Self Confidence, Emotional

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• For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

  Brian Greene

  Rich, Exciting, Wondrous

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• In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Math, Mind

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• I wouldn't say that The Fabric of the Cosmos is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Mean, Reality

  "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. February 8, 2005.

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• Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Confusion, Perspective

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• It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

  Bede Griffiths

  Christian, Together, Grows

  Bede Griffiths (1973). “Vedanta & Christian faith”

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• Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, True Power, Understanding And Compassion

  "Thich Nhat Hanh on The Right Kind of Power". The Plum Village Interview, plumvillage.org. July 28, 2008.

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• If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Compassion, Chance

  "Sunday Interview - Stop Running, Start Being / In 1966, Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was forced from his homeland, but in all his years of exile, he has not wavered from his pursuit of inner and global peace". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.

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• One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

  Frank Herbert

  Home, Revolution, Logic

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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