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. 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

#4. Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Immanuel Kant

#5. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us

Tony Robbins

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

Iain Sinclair

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Chuck Klosterman

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Intelligence is the ability to understand the problem and find a solution to that problem.

Awdhesh Singh

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. (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

#48. They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

Pandora Poikilos

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Derek Jeter

#53. If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.

Steve Maraboli

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.

Dave Barry

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

Kamala Harris

#61. The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Bruce Pandolfini

#62. Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

Travis Bradberry

#63. When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

Bill McCartney

#64. I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

Rumer Willis

#65. 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

#66. You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

Richard Russo

#67. The most incomprehensible aspect of horror is that there is nothing to understand. Horror is incredibly shallow and common. One only needs two things in order to kill: the ability and the desire.

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#68. Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

Tony Robbins

#69. The immensity of the universe didn't suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind was introduced to glorious vistas we had never before imagined.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#70. When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jonathan Ive

#71. 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

#72. Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

John Sculley

#73. 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

#74. If you don't feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset's future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn't necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.

Warren Buffett

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. I try to keep in touch with the details ... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

Rupert Murdoch

#78. Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.

Leah C. Fowler

#79. Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." ... At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

Billy Graham

#80. The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Byron Katie

#81. It's important to understand that a writer's love for creation is only surpassed by their love of having the ability to dramatically affect the lives of their readers.

Danielle Rose

#82. 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

#83. If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Liya Kebede

#84. Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

Michael Leunig

#85. All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life - collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#86. Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#87. He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

Poul Anderson

#88. The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

Mark Epstein

#89. As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Madeleine Albright

#90. Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

Ray Dalio

#91. Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.

Kelly McGonigal

#92. 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

#93. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

#94. The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Signe Baumane

#95. My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Patrick Warburton

#96. 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

#97. One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control.

Thom Hartmann

#98. In all of us is the design of the world, We have the ability to access and understand the universe. To become other forms. It's tea you drink now, in six hours it becomes you.

Matthieu Ricard

#99. Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.

Brad Warner

#100. femelu could not understand this, her mother's ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie