To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. – Bodhidharma
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I’m filming. – Anna Kendrick
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. – Bill Gates
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level. – Cary Fukunaga
You become more tolerant when you become older. You’re not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you’re interested in understanding them. – Claire Tomalin
I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding. – Alton Brown
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There’s just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me. – Aaron Ruell
Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works. – Erin Heatherton
The understanding of Syria’s devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. – Nancy Gibbs
I’m president of the Senate. I’m not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments. – Colleen Hanabusa
Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells’ teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn’t beat themselves. – Dan Quinn
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that’s where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God… the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else. – Donald Wuerl
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
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. – Mary Catherine Bateson
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion. – Nicolas Malebranche
When I perform onstage, I’m actually kind of nearsighted, so I don’t have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like. – Nick Cave
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. – David Shuster
I always used to say hybrids would rule the world – people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama. – Danai Gurira
We don’t need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like. – Nick Harkaway
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. – David Gerrold
There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact. – Edmund Morgan
I don’t know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world. – Mary Gaitskill
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it’s understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits. – Donald Evans
You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things. – Dougray Scott