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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
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My mother came from Japan, and I really didn't understand her often. Now that I'm older, I do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that many central banks and financial authorities understand that any long term attempt to compete through an artificial depreciation of their currency will not be very effective in the long term.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's possible to let technology absorb what we know and then re-express it in intricate mechanisms - parts and circuit boards and software objects - mechanisms we can use but do not understand in crucial ways. This not-knowing is fine while everything works as we expected.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.
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