A Quote by Andre Gide

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
French - Writer
November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

Gus Van Sant

Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made.

Benjamin Graham

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

Nicholas Negroponte

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.

Joshua Cohen

The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

Robert Thurman

Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Louise Hay

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Gordon Getty

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

Lauren DeStefano

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.

Dennis Banks

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Emanuel Swedenborg

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Jane Austen

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

Alexander Pope

Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.

Timur Bekmambetov

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