I wanted to make sure that I didn't spend all my time in Tokyo. I'm the U.S. ambassador to Japan, not the… — John Roos Copy Share Image
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field… — Peter Haggett Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound.… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
“Beyond relief and recognition, there is a more complicated thing--an understanding that the machinery of the West has never had much of… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Prov. 3:5). We are not to solve… — P.G. Mathew Copy Share Image
“Kant finds that the ‘virtue of the heart’ is central and emphasizes the role of the understanding and concepts at the expense… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The Pleiadians reminded me of what my role was here, to be on this planet and to act as an ambassador to… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“You have both feet in both worlds at the same time, at least for now. An understanding of this may or may… — Van Harden Copy Share Image
Ever wonder how much patience you should have with someone, you know, before you lose your temper? Infinite. But careful now. That… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
You don't know me but it doesn't mean that u can't get to know me but this is who I am, am… — Raheem Nicholas Copy Share Image
“... understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There was something really wonderful about being able to feel confident about doing my first exhibition in China, that people would have… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems.… — John Roos Copy Share Image
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way.… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
There's only what you choose, and how you can have it. If you choose peace and joy and love, you won't get… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
I would recommend meditating. I think that's the single most important thing that I do. More than stretching, more than the way… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image