Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Love is the language of the heart. It can feel the movements of every atom and understand every language spoken or unspoken.
It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.
Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat ...
I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
