But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands; that is why i dance.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Live with a bias toward action. Ironically, this will teach you patience. When you take action each day, you learn the value of accumulating small improvements over time. You understand how daily habits compound. Be...

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

I just wish I could understand my father.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes...

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

They hear it come out, but they don’t know how it got there. They don’t understand that’s life’s way of talking. You don’t sing to feel better. You sing ’cause that’s a way of understanding...

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

People look for patterns in everything. It’s what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My...

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It’s OK. What’s bad is if you don’t know how to get out of it, don’t know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing...

But my Arabic is pretty good. It’s good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they’re feeling.

Let me love you, he saidI want to mould that broken heart,To feel the pain the others before I have caused,Walk down the darkness that you walked through,Understand how something so broken can be so...

I’ve found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don’t really understand. It simply isn’t the same in...

She doesn’t understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings – they’re helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you’re doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to...

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you’re bound to understand and like everything...

People always slow down for a train wreck. It’s like junk food. If you don’t feel good about yourself, you want to read crap about other people, like gossip in high school. You don’t understand...

Don’t assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

Understand that life is journey. I haven’t achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that’s OK – it’s coming.

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God’s role in the world as well...

A lot of people don’t understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin...

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can’t. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in...

It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal...

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that’s important.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ and being really nervous. My mom was like, ‘Laura, don’t worry: I’ve watched all of the first series of the TV...

Life is just a big game of Texas hold’em, unexpected things may arise that may suite you or destroy you. You gotta make the best of the cards your dealt, adjust accordingly, and always understand...

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it....

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

I have two children. They’re grown children. I don’t think they particularly enjoy it when I’m in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It’s what I’ve...

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it’s leading me and I’ll follow...