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  • People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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  • We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. -- Johan Huizinga
  • I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all. -- Mirah
  • My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. -- Richard Dawkins
  • For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. -- Kenneth Noland
  • 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
  • My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming. -- Anna Kendrick
  • For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. -- Matthew Stewart
  • My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills. -- Frederick W. Smith
  • For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is. -- Brian Greene
  • I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. -- Gustav Mahler
  • And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. -- Black Elk
  • It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding. -- Halle Berry
  • 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
  • My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. -- Ray Lewis
  • I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers. -- Peter Jurasik
  • Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do. -- Emma Stone
  • I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that. -- Ben Feldman
  • Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do. -- Eula Biss
  • It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it. -- David R. Ellis
  • You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding. -- Helen Keller
  • Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life. -- Jet Li
  • For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. -- Anthony Mackie
  • I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me. -- William Saroyan
  • My father represented authority, which meant?to me?that he could not also represent understanding. -- William Maxwell
  • Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. -- Byron Katie
  • Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here. -- Aimee Friedman
  • I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. -- John Dufresne
  • I don't doubt that you think you love me; what I doubt is your understanding of love. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it. -- Nas
  • In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. -- Ram Dass
  • There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense. -- Johan Huizinga
  • The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control. -- Danielle Rohr
  • I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay. -- Brooke Burke
  • I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
  • Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. -- Pierre Salinger
  • If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' -- Mary J. Blige
  • More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. -- Paul D. Boyer
  • Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously. -- Anais Nin
  • Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first. -- William Fitzsimmons
  • Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
  • The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. -- Robert Metcalfe
  • Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. -- Abba Eban
  • It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. -- Judith Butler
  • When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God. -- Ben Bova
  • He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. -- Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
  • Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars. -- Mary Tyler Moore
  • I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga. -- Patricia Velasquez
  • There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. -- Michelle Williams
  • Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me. -- Hermann Hesse
  • Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me. -- Alexander Wang
  • 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
  • And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do. -- Herb Ritts
  • Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father. -- Indira Gandhi
  • Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me. -- Joe Jonas
  • I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. -- Jamie Lidell
  • I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. -- Okky Madasari
  • Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony. -- Okky Madasari
  • To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole. -- David Deutsch
  • It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season. -- Paul Kengor
  • I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call. -- John Krasinski
  • In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. -- Todd Solondz
  • Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth. -- Ruth Reichl
  • No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me. -- Adrian Peterson
  • Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people. -- Joe Rogan
  • If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me. -- Roland Barthes
  • So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me. -- Catherine Marshall
  • I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me. -- Nicole Scherzinger
  • One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. -- Alice Walker
  • What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding. -- Kalup Linzy
  • God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do. -- Helen Steiner Rice
  • I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president. -- Hillary Clinton
  • In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. -- Emir Kusturica
  • Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. -- V.C. Andrews
  • To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things. -- Alice Sebold
  • He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. -- Gene Hill
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