Tag Archives: Understanding

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive – in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
(Edward Zwick – American Director)
08-Oct-1952 :

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
(Stefan Zweig – Austrian Writer)
28-Nov-1881 : 22-Feb-1942

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
(Xi Zhi – Chinese Philosopher)
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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
(Sarah Zettel – American Author)
01-Dec-1966 :

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
(Arthur Young – English Writer)
11-Nov-1741 : 20-Apr-1820