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Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
I believe that I've got a unique knowledge and understanding of this game, and I'm able to see it differently than a lot of people.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.
There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind
I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?