#standing

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cooking #cuisines #cultures #curiosity #guest

In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best. ↗

— Tim Allen

#basically #best #cars #difference #drives

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#coming #found #genius #imagination #inherited

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#believe #eyes #find #fly #know

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#been #does #right-wing #things #understanding

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#brings #every #goal #human #human being

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that’s not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes... ↗

— Dunya Look

#truth-of-life #understanding-oneself-and-others #inspirational

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#revelation #understanding #love

Our minds are full of things our hearts do not understand and that my love, is why the world is filled with so much chaos. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#mind #understanding #world #love