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Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.
New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.
Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.
It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
[Donald] Trump just said that he thinks his supporters will be okay and understanding with his decision not to prosecute the Clintons.
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.
In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.
It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.
Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.
Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.
When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.