#understandings

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ↗

— John Woolman

#case #cast #civil #civil society #disorder

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#believe #come #created #enjoy #failure

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hearts #led #much #oftener #than

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#agreement #ask #assumptions #avoid #clearly

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. ↗

— Renata Adler

#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#been #close #close friends #difficult #dissolved

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#cause #divide #love #means #misunderstandings

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#eyes #hearts #our #see #understandings

Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love. ↗

— Dana Fox

#beginning #coming #end #eventually #everyone