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 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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If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
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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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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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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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At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
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Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.
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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.
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If anything I stopped is because I understood everything except the distance.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.
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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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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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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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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
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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 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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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
