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"I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding."
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"God's Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom."
"We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations."
"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."
"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."
"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."
"If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth."
"The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success."
"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."
"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
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"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
"While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht."
"The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
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