I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues,… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision,… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning… — Plato Copy Share Image
Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of… — Mandawuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
“This is where we work, in the interstices of ignorance, the land of contradiction and silence, planning to convince you with the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
My focus is to push the medium to be what it truly can be. Something well beyond 360-video, which is where a… — Brett Leonard Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school,… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,… — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
