Grasp Quotes

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When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which… — Tom Stoppard
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order… — Paul Hawken
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels… — Eric Kandel
People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only… — Stanley B. Prusiner
It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos… — Martin Rees
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it… — Paul Bloom
I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things. — Walter Alston
If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it. — Sarah Harrison
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you… — Matthew Davis
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock… — Ellen Willis
You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that… — Audrey MacLean
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. — Martin Freeman
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it… — Per Petterson
First, you must have entrepreneurs who fully grasp their customers. They understand their product so well because they themselves are customers. The second thing is… — Craig Sherman
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. — Colin Wilson
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One… — Vannevar Bush
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. — Saint Bernard
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. — John Berry
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in… — Gustave Courbet

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