Understood Quotes
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There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.
Cathy Hughes -
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.
Emil Cioran
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When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
Stephen Covey -
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.
Mordecai Richler -
If you don’t know the men at your back by name, don’t be surprised if they won’t follow you into battle. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.
Richard K. Morgan -
I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
Michael Ian Black -
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
Terence McKenna -
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.
Amit Abraham -
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.
Steve Martin -
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
Eugene Delacroix -
And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.
Georg Ganswein -
And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn’t have to be a killer.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Gertrude Atherton -
Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
Sarah Dessen -
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle -
If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.
Esther Hicks -
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
Sherman Alexie -
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
Stephen Covey