Understood Quotes
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
Flannery O'Connor
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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I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
Ben Aaronovitch
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster
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Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.
Lars Ulrich
Metallica
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Pablo Picasso
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Vittorio Alfieri
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Nolan Bushnell
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin
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As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
Marianne Williamson
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
Victor Wooten
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
Sarah Dessen
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
Betty Eadie
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We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
Allen Tate
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
Soren Kierkegaard
