Good Understanding Quotes:

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

topic: Hurt, Understanding, Good Understanding

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

- Eric Stonestreet

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Animal, Understanding, Good Understanding

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

- Og Mandino

source: "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Kindness And Compassion, Kindness Generosity

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

- Albert Camus

topic: Life, Hate, War, Malevolence, Lack Of Understanding

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

- Robert Emmet

topic: Heart, Thinking, Understanding, Calumny Is, Good Understanding

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither.

- Plutarch

source: Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.195

topic: Brother, Silly, Two, Good Understanding, Two Brothers

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

- Jean de la Bruyere

source: "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Ch. I., 1688.

topic: Writing, Men, Thinking, Good Understanding

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Men, Perfection, Understanding, Good Understanding

Ive learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

- Claudia Schiffer

topic: Cutting, Years, Understanding, Ive Learned, Good Understanding

The prince in The Leopard was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.

- Luchino Visconti

topic: Strong, Stupid, Character, Complex Characters, Good Understanding

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

topic: Responsibility, Understanding, Actors, Good Understanding

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.

- Nina Jacobson

source: "EXCLUSIVE: Producer Nina Jacobson Talks The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 19, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Careers, Perspective, Good Understanding

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

topic: Friendship, Men, Two, Good Understanding

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

- Dave Matthews

topic: Should Have, Understanding, Whole Life, Good Understanding

I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.

- Lance Berkman

source: "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Christian, College, Years, Baptized, Good Understanding

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

- George Sand

topic: Philosophy, Understanding, Style, Good Understanding

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.

- Daniel Horan

topic: Drama, Thinking, People, Good Understanding

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

- John Legend

topic: Real, Thinking, People, Good Understanding

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

- Criss Angel

topic: Pain, Understanding, Management, Good Understanding

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

- Jenson Button

topic: Sports, Thinking, Understanding, Good Understanding

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Wisdom, Understanding, Brain, Good Understanding

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.426

topic: Understanding, Together, World, Good Understanding

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Respect, Thinking, Intelligent, Good Understanding

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

- George Lucas

topic: Psychology, Understanding, Important, Good Understanding

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

- Jack Nicholson

source: "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Play, People, Good Understanding

This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.

- Andrew Tan

topic: Challenges, Understanding, Environmental, Environmental Challenges, Good Understanding

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

- Robert Boyle

topic: Understanding, Littles, Philosopher, Good Understanding

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

- George Etherege

source: 1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 1, sc.1.

topic: Understanding, Mistress, Next, Good Understanding

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Kissing, Understanding, Way, Lexicographer, Rite

Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.

- Edward Mazria

topic: Strong, Design, Understanding, Incorporation, Good Understanding

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

- John Hoeven

topic: Country, Strong, Understanding, Energy Policy, Good Understanding

Caution is crediting, and reserve in speaking, and in revealing one's self to but very few, are the best securities both of a good understanding with the world, and of the inward peace of our own minds.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Self, Understanding, Mind, Good Understanding

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

- Sidney Poitier

topic: Years, Understanding, Granddaughter, Good Understanding