Understanding Quotes - Page 31

• I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter of people understanding how that economic driver is revealed with healthy investments on the space frontier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Military, Space, People

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Important, Stills

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Office, Situation

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

  Charles Koch

  Trying, Fiber, Civility

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Cutting, Race

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Fiction, Results

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Army, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

  Clint Eastwood

  Names, Calling

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

  David Oyelowo

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Erode

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.

  Charles Koch

  America, People, Principles

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Men, Self

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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• You teach someone about fallopian tubes in grade school, and you revisit it again in seventh grade for a better understanding of that stuff. I think it's never-ending. I don't know why it isn't all the time.

  Jen Kirkman

  School, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from chatting with other kids. It's a big impact. One of the curious things is that even when - and this we found from studies - the schools are doing pretty badly in terms of their education, about mathematics and literature and language, going to school transformed people because I think the action of schooling, the activity, is very important.

  Amartya Sen

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, Challenges, Sin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it should be a last resort. And it needs to be used with full understanding of the consequences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Past, America

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running, Heart, Order

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.

  Amartya Sen

  Determination, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We have a whole mass of complex ways of understanding what is the nature of visual space. A proper part of psychology ought to be, and in recent years has been, an effort to try to discover the principles of how we organize visual space. I would say that the same is true of every domain of psychology, of human studies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Space, Effort

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there is a lot of progress. In many other domains, there is very little progress in developing real scientific understanding.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Progress, Molecules

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so much from all the great management theorists. It gave me a greater understanding of my army experience and showed me the gaps in my knowledge.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  People, Giving, Blind

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, People, Limits

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Heart, Mind

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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