Understood Quotes
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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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The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
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You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?
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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.
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The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
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I didn’t tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
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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 Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
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All these years later, the world knows who I am, ... When it was first released, nobody understood who I was.
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If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
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Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
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I think certainly he's concerned that he's not going to get the endorsement, but we understood what the rules were from the beginning and we ought to stick to the rules.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.
