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My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person. -- Jamie Dornan
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I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person. -- George W. Bush
I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path. -- Dianna Agron
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. -- Bono
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. -- Bryant H. McGill
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. -- Bono
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. -- Stephen Covey
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense. -- Todd Rundgren
I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place. -- John Hurt
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person. -- Nhat Hanh
Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate. -- Brian Kernighan
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. -- Edmund Burke
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. -- Richard Eyre
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. -- Arlo Guthrie
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems. -- Paul Bloom
I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it. -- Henning Mankell
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on. -- Penn Jillette
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Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things. -- Ndamukong Suh
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future. -- Frank J. Tipler
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work. -- Kenneth R. Miller
A person does not lose so much own professional growth opportunity by knowing less, as much by understanding more than others on the personal level. -- Anuj Somany
We can love someone without understanding that person. -- Dorothy Rowe
An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding. -- Michael Bradley
By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. -- Nhat Hanh
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is. -- Andy Hargreaves
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it. -- Criss Jami
Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. -- Ron Suskind
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The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. -- John Mayer
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself. -- Nikki Rowe
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely. -- Friedrich Schleiermacher
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. -- Rajneesh
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. -- Donald A. Norman
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding. -- John D. Rockefeller
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
Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward. -- Paule Marshall
Pause and remember - Every person is going through difficult hardships and growth. Let's be more conscious of this by being more patient, compassionate and understanding. -- Jennifer Young
Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself. -- John Hughes
You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play. -- Mia Wasikowska
It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light. -- Jeanne DuPrau
A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -- Erich Fromm
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. -- John A. Lejeune
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
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. -- John Dewey
We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him? -- Confucius
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship. -- Peter Kreeft

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