Understanding Quotes

Can you start a movement in your land that will encourage men and women to begin to think, to begin to make sound judgement and informed decisions? Will you bring illumination to your people? Will you facilitate understanding amidst those whom you live with? The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.

~ Chris Matakas

Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

~ Chris Matakas

When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.

~ Karen Kimsey-House

Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The person who understands that God is the only One who builds, becomes His beloved. And to that kind of pastor God will give sleep.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Mutual understanding and help are the foundation of a strong team.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Only the one who has the understanding of time will be ready to give an account to the Lord for what He did on this earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Understanding is aggregated knowledge that has transformed into a lifestyle.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The church is strong when she lives by divine understanding.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.

~ Ka Chinery

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander's own... that none of these things, I say, can make a man happy, unless he can win one more victory in addition to those the world thinks so great---the victory over himself.

~ Arrian

Well, this is how I feel: I want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside. Do you understand me?

~ Anonymous

I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood.

~ Terry Pratchett

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

~ Steven Magee

It’s easy to love those we like, but what about those we don’t, and why would we anyways? There may be someone who doesn’t like us, yet they’re accepting of us, unconditionally loving us.Love means, I accept you as someone as imperfect as I am, someone who wants security and acceptance, someone who may be scared and shows it in the wrong ways, someone who is as worthy of my understanding, love, and acceptance as may feel I am of theirs. Someone who needs someone to love them first.

~ Russell Kyle

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Imagine a true master of the art, someone with complete skill in every aspect of Jiu Jitsu. This master would not force anything. He would simply allow the roll to take whatever form it does, and in every position would act in the most efficient way based off what the circumstance dictates, and not what he himself prefers.

~ Chris Matakas

If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring thecomplete electromagnetic spectrum that also includes the study of atmospheric pressure waves,atmospheric voltage effects on the cellular system, and the biological effects of the various forms ofatmospheric radiation transmission.

~ Steven Magee

Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.

~ Fennel Hudson

It appears, at least from my perspective, that each and every position in Jiu Jitsu regardless of the seeming complexity is really governed by no more than a handful of minimum viable products. Pursue to understand these essentials, and you will see that complexity is a myth perpetuated by lack of understanding, and it is this understanding which is possible for each of us.

~ Chris Matakas

Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've

~ Jess Row

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told all about them that can be told; even if they are imperfect or unreal they do not contain any secrets, whereas our friends do and must, mutual secrecy being one of the conditions of life upon this globe.

~ E.m. Forster

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

~ Saul Bellow

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.

~ Nityananda Das

... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving...

~ Marcel Proust

I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.

~ Marian Deegan

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

~ Elizabeth George

The term I despise most is motivation. Motivation is an unreliable tease and isn't worth your time. Motivation is fleeting, DISCIPLINE is reliable. Cultivate DISCIPLINE and FORCE yourself to do things to better yourself. It isn't about keeping yourself motivated, it's about how to train yourself to work without it.

~ Mustafa Said