#understand

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#friends #hanging #i #life #line

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#makes #totally #understanding #very

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#before #every #free #gullible #life

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#come #go #try #understand

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#clothes #fashion #follow #i #kind

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? ↗

— Howard Stringer

#bed #content #definition #each #fellows

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#big #changed #coming #contract #did

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chinese #english #got #her #i