My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate experience. Rather, understanding is the way we "have a world," the way we experience our world as a ...
Only a monkey understands a monkey.
The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.
You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it ta...
In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the...
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third...
I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I h...
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
Once you understand life--you understand life's potential.
And when life's sweet fable ends, Soul and body part like friends; No quarrels, murmurs, no delay; A kiss, a sigh, and so away.
Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product
There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
