Top 100 Ability To Understand Quotes
#1. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#2. Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth.
I. Alan Appt
#3. God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
Pope Francis
#4. Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.
Anna Quindlen
#5. In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.
Bill Gates
#6. Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.
Andrew Marr
#7. We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.
Chuck Klosterman
#8. Intelligence is the ability to understand the problem and find a solution to that problem.
Awdhesh Singh
#9. There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?
Peter Riegert
#10. Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.
David A. Siegel
#11. Many think vulnerability is weakness, but it is not. Those who refuse to be vulnerable lose the ability to understand others who are, and their fear and discomfort quickly turn into judgment and criticism.
Save Time Summaries
#12. The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
L. Ron Hubbard
#13. The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. Maxwell
#14. (First World) petite bourgeoisie are pretty much the most handicapped ones coming to the struggle, both in terms of ability to disrupt the system and in ability to understand what 's going on in the first place
Anonymous
#15. I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
Derek Jeter
#16. The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.
Bruce Pandolfini
#17. When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
Bill McCartney
#18. My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#19. When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Jonathan Ive
#20. Develop and exercise the ability to understand your partner's point of view so completely that you're able to believe them. Keep listening until you get their point of view so entirely that you understand how it is true for them.
Beth Banning
#21. Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.
Sarah Parcak
#22. That is to say, our physical ability to understand time has been honed by evolutionary pressures to select for traits useful for survival, in all aspects, and time perception is no exception or special case or even magical or mysterious case.
Charles Yu
#23. People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.
Charlie Kaufman
#24. The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
Byron Katie
#25. leaders confuse the mere transfer of information to an audience with the audience's ability to understand, internalize, and embrace the message that is being communicated.
Patrick Lencioni
#26. Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#27. He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
Poul Anderson
#28. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted ... Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#29. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
#30. The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
Signe Baumane
#31. Give me the ability to understand
to be more than just another man
to do the things I was sent here to do
and to touch the world gently as I pass through.
Javan
#32. Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.
Brad Warner
#33. Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#34. Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.
Joan D. Chittister
#35. There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.
Ronald Steel
#36. I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.
David Chang
#37. There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill.
Robert Kiyosaki
#38. What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
#39. I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#40. Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
Ella Baker
#41. Creating Lovemarks is all about the ability to understand consumers' dreams, to know what they want and when they want it and to create great experiences that make your brand a part of their lives.
Kevin Roberts
#42. The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker
#43. A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
George Saunders
#44. The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.
George W. Bush
#45. Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves
George Soros
#46. We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
Marge Piercy
#48. I believe that our ability to grow as an industry is directly proportional to our ability to understand our past; if we cannot understand it because we cannot play it, our evolution may well be stunted.
Richard Rouse
#49. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.
Ai Weiwei
#50. I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
Chuck Schumer
#51. My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell
#52. Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
James Brown
#53. Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.
Shoshana Zuboff
#54. Leadership is about relationships - whether it's a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.
Steve Knox
#55. Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words.
It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.
Toba Beta
#56. Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and "chime in" with our deepest intuitions about truth, beauty, and goodness. If
Alister E. McGrath
#57. Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Immanuel Kant
#58. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us
Tony Robbins
#59. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#60. I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
Andy Rooney
#61. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.
Charles F. Stanley
#62. But the characteristic that is truly special about our species ... [is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme ...
Arthur C. Clarke
#63. A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
Evgeny Morozov
#64. You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
Iain Sinclair
#65. Welcome to my nightmare," Elvira muttered. "Though you got yourself a biker who fills his Levi's so well he should be in Harley Davidson ads and has an off-the-charts ability to give pleasure so you can't really understand my pain.
Kristen Ashley
#66. Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about
Al Hirschfeld
#67. Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Frank Herbert
#68. But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.
Charles Bass
#69. I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#70. Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Bill Gates
#71. Large corporations and governments do not seem to understand this rebound power of information and its ability to control those who try to control it. When you hear a corporation or a debt-laden government trying to "reinstill confidence" you know they are fragile, hence doomed.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#72. Maybe we have lost the ability, that sixth sense that allows us to see miracles and have visions and understand that we are something other, larger than what we have been told. Maybe evolution has been going on in reverse longer than I suspect, and we are already sad, dumb fish.
Richard Flanagan
#73. I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
Stephen Harper
#74. Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
Brian Greene
#75. Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.
Mark Miller
#76. The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.
Sam Vaknin
#77. If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.
Ronnie Musgrove
#78. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
Daniel Kahneman
#79. To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.
Carroll Quigley
#80. Difference thinking' is more than the ability to connect the dots, though. It's about seeing the truth, recognising the opportunity in that truth and then acting on it. You need to learn how to see the dots and understand the significance of connecting them before you can begin.
Bernadette Jiwa
#81. Your larger goals are less clear. You understand the outcome that you would like to achieve. Yet, the path to travel is not as clear and you have doubts as to your ability to accomplish these goals.
Jean Charest
#82. We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
Niall Ferguson
#83. I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
David Mamet
#84. Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.
Al Gore
#85. We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.
Norman Cousins
#86. No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability. It's certainly not a judgmental entity. It's certainly not paternalistic and all these qualities that have been attributed to God.
George Carlin
#87. What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will. What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will. Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being.
Soren Kierkegaard
#88. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#89. They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.
Pandora Poikilos
#90. As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
Bernie Siegel
#91. Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
James C. Collins
#92. You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
John Dewey
#93. If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.
Steve Maraboli
#94. The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#95. Despite my ability to read people, I felt like an outsider, like someone watching a party from the other side of the glass. I could see these things unfold, but I couldn't quite understand the dynamics, the deep knowing that comes from growing up with people you care about.
Sarah Ockler
#96. Thank you seems like too little ... or maybe too much, since he couldn't possibly understand how much I needed to hear what he just said. How much I needed to know that even without my ability, I am someone worth knowing. That every little and ridiculous quality I exhibit makes me who I am.
Kasie West
#97. Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.
Dave Barry
#98. It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S. Truman
#99. It is important to understand the purpose of criticism. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal of criticism or discipline is improvement. You must keep that in mind and try to the best of your ability to use tact.
John Wooden
#100. When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.
Kamala Harris
