Quotes by Understanding I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there. Peter Buffett understandingcompassionthinking Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body. Peter Dickens painunderstandingperfection Unless we know history, we will have little understanding of how far we have come, how we got here, and what still needs to change to make America and the rest of the world more livable, humane, and democratic. Peter Dreier democraticunderstandingworld And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. Peter Gay certainunderstandingstrong Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue. Peter Garrett issuesunderstandingresearch I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film. Peter Greenaway intelligentunderstandingwant There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. Peter Høeg distanceunderstandingmoving To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. Peter Joseph levelsawarenessunderstanding Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. Peter Lynch balanceunderstandingloss As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. Peter Drucker understandingstepsfirsts ...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Paulo Coelho understandingheartlove Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding. Peter Mullan gainsunderstandingsometimes To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. Peter Drucker empathycommunicationunderstanding The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough. Paulo Coelho destinyunderstandinggiving Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played. Peter Sarsgaard hanging-outunderstandingwant You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world. Peter Schjeldahl understandingagreementworld The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. Paulo Coelho understandingsoulwisdom 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 understandingcaringgod Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other. Peter Singer understandingsufferinganimal Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. Paulo Coelho mysteryunderstandingkeys«132133134135136137138139140141142»
