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  • An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with. -- Harrison Ford
  • Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. -- Yo-Yo Ma
  • The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding. -- Jose Ferreira
  • Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness. -- Goldie Hawn
  • This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director. -- Ben Edwards
  • Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured. -- Dana Plato
  • When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents. -- Dinaw Mengestu
  • Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public. -- Xavier Niel
  • Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. -- Roland Allen
  • Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary. -- Jon Porter
  • We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm. -- Evan Spiegel
  • What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. -- Henry Mintzberg
  • Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. -- John Polkinghorne
  • During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. -- Martin Ryle
  • Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen. -- Steven Amsterdam
  • Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.' -- Delta Goodrem
  • I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do. -- Shari Arison
  • A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. -- Steve Jobs
  • I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience. -- James E. Faust
  • There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all? -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • Experience precedes understanding. -- Jean Piaget
  • A respectful understanding of another's experience. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • Art is not about understanding, itâ??s about experience. -- Antony Gormley
  • Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding. -- Edsger Dijkstra
  • I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience. -- Yasser Seirawan
  • Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience -- Lilian Katz
  • To experience the unknown, developing understanding and to care, that is our purpose. -- Maurice Randall
  • The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. -- Steve Jobs
  • Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. -- Mikhail Lermontov
  • I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
  • Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience. -- Mae Jemison
  • Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience. -- Mae Jemison
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  • Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding -- Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares. -- Doris Lessing
  • Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. -- Terence McKenna
  • Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. -- Paul Nurse
  • I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? -- Marvin Minsky
  • Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. -- Dee Hock
  • I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence. -- Brian Greene
  • The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. -- Stephen Gaskin
  • Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions. -- Pema Chodron
  • If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
  • A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience. -- Paul Simon
  • My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding. -- Wil Wheaton
  • It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts. -- Donnie Yen
  • 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
  • The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell -- Heinz Kohut
  • I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. -- Barbara Kruger
  • Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning. -- Ray Dalio
  • This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer. -- Farrah Fawcett
  • The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding. -- Rudolf Arnheim
  • Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience. -- Eugene Gendlin
  • Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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