Understood Quotes
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No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood
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We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.
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One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
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It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
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If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.
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If anything I stopped is because I understood everything except the distance.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.
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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
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At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
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I loved her for her silence. Or maybe I just understood it. And loved my father too, for the careful way he spoke. I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
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..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.
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Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take
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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
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The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
