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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. -- Clemence Poesy
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. -- John Naisbitt
I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful. -- Gary Coleman
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. -- Manuel Puig
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. -- Herb Kelleher
We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand. -- Rod Steiger
I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day. -- Bob Dylan
Before you hate something you should try to understand it. -- Martha Grimes
Before believing, find the truth; before accepting, try to understand. -- Debasish Mridha
Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It's Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don't try to understand it. Just roll with it. -- Richelle Mead
As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. -- Robert Breault
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do. -- Jose Saramago
Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary. -- Jane Fonda
I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better. -- George Packer
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. -- Freddie Mercury
It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. -- Scott Berkun
Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain. -- Eckhart Tolle
It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love. -- Debasish Mridha
I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! -- Charles M. Schulz
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? -- Pablo Picasso
Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy. -- Jim Stovall
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. -- Maria Montessori
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. -- Terry Pratchett
You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive. -- Shannon L. Alder
I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. -- Garry Winogrand
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. -- Jane Fonda
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. -- Emily Greene Balch
Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it. -- William C. Brown
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies -- John Cleese
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. -- Manuel Puig
Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face. -- Eoin Colfer
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. -- Irving Stone
Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason. -- Berenice Bejo
I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy. -- Jackson Browne
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. -- Dogen
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems. -- Raymond Loewy
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. -- Shunryu Suzuki
When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost. -- Fred Alan Wolf
When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. -- Patricia Churchland
i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan. -- Robert Jordan
Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are. -- Maya Angelou
Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul. -- Zhuangzi
Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work. -- David Zayas
It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work. -- Matthew Crawford
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy. -- Hari Kunzru
I am not the best :( but try to understand, this world is samll to swallow my thoughts :') , you let me free and find my world :'D -- Pratyush Singh
The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect. -- Duncan Green
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me. -- Steve Vai
I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love. -- Roxane Gay
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. -- Pablo Picasso
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center. -- Brennan Manning
Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react. -- Hillary Clinton
No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate. -- John I. Jenkins
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere. -- Sheena Iyengar
Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out. -- Shahid Afridi
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be. -- Joshua Foer
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. -- James Hansen
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own "?" "That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore. -- J. K. Rowling
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. -- V. S. Naipaul
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit. -- Diane Ackerman
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating. -- Max von Sydow
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. -- Alan Lightman
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. -- Paulo Coelho
My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done. -- Muhammad Ali
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. -- Helen Rowland
If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems. -- John Mellencamp
I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world. -- Zhou Xun
I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing. -- Antoine Predock
I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other. -- Juliette Binoche
For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. -- Tom Waits
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did. -- Nancy Horan
My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world. -- Dave Davies
I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive. -- Marat Safin
It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship. -- Mark Cuban
Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain. -- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known. -- Rajneesh
There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions. -- Claude Bernard
I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say. -- Mike Singletary
You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than both of them and, for all our rationality, our rules and laws, our baser drives are still straight out of the jungle." -- Michael Robotham
I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have been trying for so long and we're not getting very far. But I do want to try to understand it better, and I want to make some forward movement. -- Eva Vertes
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react. -- Louise Penny
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. -- Bruce Cockburn
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. -- Prem Rawat
Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty. -- Gore Verbinski
Trying to understand women is a tall order period. -- Ricky Schroder
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens. -- Sandra Bullock
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. -- V. S. Naipaul
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. -- Gilbert Parker
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising. -- Barry Diller
I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. -- Joseph Joubert
I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better. -- David Chang
I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious. -- John Shelby Spong
Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. -- Tina Brown
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. -- Laura San Giacomo
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. -- Elon Musk
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. -- Caio Fonseca
Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible. -- Gracie Allen
Try to understand long before you move to judgment. -- Michael Adam Hamilton
Try to understand, analyze and find the truth before believing. -- Debasish Mridha
People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. -- Eva Le Gallienne
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. -- Eugene Ionesco
If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, -- John Langdon-Davies
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original -- Charles Spurgeon
I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!" -- K. Hari Kumar
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me! -- Tupac Shakur
Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves. -- Byron Katie
We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light. -- Lauren Oliver
Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another. -- Carolina Herrera
That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand. -- Mira Grant
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully. -- Neale Donald Walsch

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