#understanding

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#how #life #lose #losing #understanding

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand. ↗

— Shawn Klomparens

#life #love #maps #understanding #death

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#am #because #i #i am #religion

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #feeling #led #me #personal

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. ↗

— Laura Dern

#actor #audition #films #go #good

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#conceive #either #essence #i #i think

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #breakthrough #important #leads #like