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I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people. -- Rita Wilson
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. -- Stanley Clarke
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. -- Samuel Richardson
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them. -- Duncan Green
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. -- Nicholas Sparks
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. -- Umberto Eco
I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either. -- Hugo Weaving
For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process. -- Thomas Struth
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -- Arleigh Burke
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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
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I love people. I love understanding people, why they do the things they do, and why they make the decisions they make. It kind of just over time escalated into realizing that I could... experience that interest and get paid at the same time. -- Charlie Barnett
Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English. -- Julio Iglesias
I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. -- Sienna Miller
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering. -- Kevin Sorbo
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding. -- Richard Dawkins
Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy. -- Alex Gibney
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. -- Jeff Bezos
The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding. -- Douglas Alexander
When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. -- Lou Holtz
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. -- John Ortberg
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. -- Princess Diana
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. -- Jack Nicholson
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. -- Sam Brownback
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people. -- John Warnock
I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people. -- Amos Lee
Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work. -- Rudy Giuliani
There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness. -- Paulo Coelho
Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others. -- John C. Maxwell
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. -- Jose Saramago
Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. -- Robert Nozick
People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world. -- Wu Wei
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking. -- Albert Bandura
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge. -- Sun Ra
Life Is Just Understanding, people Just Running but why they Run? They don't know -- Sushil Singh
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People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. -- Richard P. Feynman
To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard. -- Franz Kafka
People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. -- Agnes Repplier
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding. -- Steve Jobs
I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources. -- Ted Cruz
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding, -- J. Christopher Stevens
...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand. -- Kim Harrison
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. -- Rajneesh
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding -- John Knowles
...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference. -- Libba Bray
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them, -- Niels Diffrient
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. -- Oscar Wilde
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. -- Shannon L. Alder
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools. -- Andre Gide
Everyone loves to walk in the footprints of successful people, even without understanding whom footprints they walk in -- M.F. Moonzajer
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. -- George Orwell
People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it. -- Nas
Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally. -- Frank Oppenheimer
You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have. -- Chath Piersath
It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times. -- Mia Wasikowska
I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. -- Volker Bertelmann
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage. -- Adam Duritz
I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play. -- Jeppe Hein
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. -- Alice Walker
if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. -- Susan Polis Schutz
Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. -- Leon Brown
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. -- Tom Robbins
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We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture. -- Margaret Thatcher
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. -- Barack Obama
My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly. -- Robert Carlyle
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever. -- Donald A. Norman
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. -- Nathan Sawaya
You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. -- Annie Lennox
We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations. -- Dan Quayle
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? -- Marvin Minsky
Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective. -- Tim Wu
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted -- Carl Sandburg
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other? -- Lester B. Pearson
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme. -- David Souter
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. -- Ernie Pyle
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. -- Claire Tomalin
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
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different. -- Joe Jonas
Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. -- Chinua Achebe
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
I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more. -- Keith Fullerton Whitman
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die. -- Gertrude Diamant
The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all. -- Gerald R. Ford
The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it another 3,700 years. -- Menachem Begin
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. -- Hazel Hawke
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. -- Steve Prefontaine
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. -- Helen Steiner Rice
The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it. -- Confucius
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. -- Louis Farrakhan
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world. -- Greil Marcus
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding. -- Akio Morita
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. -- Malcolm Gladwell
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. -- Chinua Achebe
The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. -- Joe Torre
Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail. -- Dave McClure
People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything. -- Jonathan Haidt
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. -- Strom Thurmond
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them. -- Anton Chekhov
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will. -- Epictetus
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us. -- Peter Senge
Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself. -- Marianne Williamson
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators. -- Simon van der Meer
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. -- David Eagleman
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
The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it. -- David Bowie
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

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