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What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Anatoli Boukreev

Hope

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

James Boswell

Argument

Understanding

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Marc Bloch

History

Understanding

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Education

Understanding

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

Jello Biafra

Understanding

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.