#standing

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself. ↗

— Tom Jones

#award #because #been #called #ceremony

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#addressing #big #big problem #experience #future

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. ↗

— Wen Ho Lee

#even #feel #i #i feel #long

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding. But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same. Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#philosophy #understanding #writer #writing #age

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on. ↗

— Crystal Chappell

#had #idea #no idea #olivia #understanding

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. ↗

— Ryan White

#attitudes #changing #could #education #faith

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#book #understanding #youth #art

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. ↗

— Xun Zi

#could #distance #far #farther #found