Quotes by Understanding The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up. Robert Metcalfe get-betterinnovationunderstanding This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest. Robert M. Pirsig inner-peaceunderstandingmind Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it. Robert M. Pirsig understandingdreammen An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. Robert M. Pirsig understandingkeysacceptance Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. Robert M. Pirsig zen-motorcycle-maintenancequalityunderstanding There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. Robert M. Pirsig zen-motorcycle-maintenanceunderstandinglittles Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. Robert M. Pirsig passionunderstandingmind We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone. Robert Musil understandingflowerhands Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. Robert Nozick economicsunderstandingpeople My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time. Robert Owen uselessunderstandingimportant The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Robert Penn Warren common-humanityunderstandinggiving Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. Robert Rauschenberg understandingartthinking For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren understandingpoetryself Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments. Robert Rosenberg accomplishmentunderstandingcharacter The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market. Robert Reich technologyunderstandingkeys I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles about how human beings interact. Economics is very useful, and I studied economics in graduate school. But without understanding the social and organizational context of economics, it becomes a theory without any groundwork. Robert Reich understandinggivingschool Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect. Robert S. Kaplan mutualaffectionunderstanding The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you. Robert Thurman understandingmeditationlong I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character. Robert Pattinson understandingcharacterthinking So that's the process of understanding, and through that process, if you have a deep realization of the selflessness in regard to your absolute self, then it releases your relational self to be happily interconnected with everything in a blissful way. Then you yourself have "no problem" in the sense of no suffering. You reach Nirvana. Robert Thurman understandingsufferingself«146147148149150151152153154155156»
