Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. – Carmen Agra Deedy
When you’re used to being at a point where you’re deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn’t see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK. – Matt McGorry
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. – Marian Anderson
Sometimes it’s a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users’ sentiments. – Meg Whitman
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. – Nhat Hanh
My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they’ve been more pioneers on the special education side. – Margaret Spellings
I like understanding what’s underneath, what’s really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that. – Michelle Pfeiffer
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity. – Miroslav Volf
My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. – The Bible Colossians 2:2-3
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. – Moses Mendelssohn
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. – The Bible Proverbs 9:10
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn’t want to. – Joseph Wambaugh
The public’s nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing. – Jack Valenti
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. – Lao Tzu
The scientist’s inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. – Kenneth G. Wilson
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. – K. Eric Drexler