#understand

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#attempt #beneath #energy #get #i

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#been #begin #book #each #exists

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#also #always #any #approach #big

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#been #challenge #complex #i #keep

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#indifferent #life #men #necessary #nothing

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. ↗

— David Gower

#happy #hard #regime #results #team

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#democracy #effective #member #responsibility #understand

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#being #expert #just #makes #medicine

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business. ↗

— Lori Greiner

#credibility #doing #had #i #know