#understanding

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#got #mean #means #resignation #something

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#china #design #everyone #human #human nature

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life. ↗

— Allison Williams

#act #after #being #college #enough

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#avant-garde #because #bit #i #i think

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#before #careful #hands #injurious #likely

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day. ↗

— Edward Grey

#arrangements #better #cannot #changing #circumstances

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#central #certainty #concerned #culture #death

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#activity #biological #challenges #conscious #death