#understand

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong. ↗

— John Grierson

#conflicting #happens #important #more #often

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#bit #change #different #just #language

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#definition #old #poetry #teacher #understand

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#also #another #challenge #challenges #eagerly

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#does #end #i #justify #lasting

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#causes #damaged #did #discovering #function

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#cannot #comprehensible #context #crime #day

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#big #both #despite #fish #had

But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon. ↗

— Bridget Hall

#black #comb #forward #going #great

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#audience #characters #concentration #empathize #every