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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.
I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.
Anyone can be a DJ but it's understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.
Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
Can you join, ask sincerely for affection without sweaty hand of expectation, understanding and accepting if it never is given?
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding.
Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.