Understanding Why Quotes

• Entender el porqué nunca es suficiente.

  Lucy Freeman

  Understanding, Enough

  Lucy Freeman (1957). “Search for Love”

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Nagging

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• El conocimiento no es poder, sólo es potencial. Aplicar ese conocimiento es poder. Comprender por qué y cuándo aplicar ese conocimiento es sabiduría.

  Takeda Shingen

  Understanding, Knowledge Is Power

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• Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

  Richard Bandler

  Understanding, Doe, Helping

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• Escuchar no es entender las palabras de la pregunta formulada, escuchar es entender por qué se formuló la pregunta en primer lugar.

  Simon Sinek

  Comprender, escuchar, preguntar

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2012

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• Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.

  Bill Gates

  Girl, Understanding, Needs

  Fuente: www.ctvnews.ca

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• The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'

  Sandra Bullock

  Helping Others, People, Parent

  Source: acttwomagazine.com

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• Cate Blanchett es hipnotizante. No sé por qué. Está más allá de mi comprensión. Todos queremos trabajar con ella porque nos eleva al resto. Tiene una gracia etérea y una elegancia que me sobrepasa, y una aguda comprensión de la naturaleza humana. Ella es simplemente exquisita. Ella es de otro mundo.

  Brad Pitt

  Gracia, Comprensión, Querer

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• I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Believe, Should Have

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• I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

  Volker Bertelmann

  People, Understanding, Style

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Puede que haya hombres que actúen sin entender por qué. Yo no. Escuchar mucho, escoger lo bueno y seguirlo; ver mucho y reflexionar sobre ello: esto viene después de la comprensión.

  Confucius

  Men, Understanding, May

  Confucius (1909). "Los dichos de Confucius"

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  Idris Elba

  América, Larga, Gente

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• I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Jobs, Wall, College

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• If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.

  París Reidhead

  God, Christian, America

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• I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Rip, Angel

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• Sólo había visto una pistola una vez, una más pequeña en la cadera de aquel viejo ayudante del sheriff, una pistola que siempre pensó que era más bien para aparentar. Se metió un puñado de balas mortíferas en el bolsillo, pensando en cómo cada una de ellas podía acabar con una vida individual, y comprendiendo por qué esas cosas estaban prohibidas. Matar a un hombre debería ser más difícil que agitar una tubería en su dirección. Debería llevar el tiempo suficiente para que la conciencia se interpusiera en el camino.

  Hugh Howey

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Libro de Hugh Howey, 25 de enero de 2012.

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• The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Understanding, Might

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Struggle, Understanding

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• Debo admitir, Peter, que me cuesta entender por qué un hombre inocente querría pasar doce años como una rata.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Innocent Man, Years

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• I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Tv Shows, Broken

  "Simon Cowell is a Very Odd Boy" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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