#stands

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#character #ends #happens #oftentimes #other

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#i #know #like #nice #problem

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#becoming #complex #fact #in fact #long

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#actually #bodies #destroyed #ever #individual

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#becoming #caricature #connecting #continuing #creatively

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want. ↗

— Adam Jones

#based #bigger #building #company #could

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#fills #heart #ills #know #mother

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs. ↗

— Bob Ney

#arctic national wildlife refuge #create #good #increase #jobs

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#coming #compromises #doing #express #listener