Understood Quotes
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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.
Betsy Lerner
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
Albert Einstein
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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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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift
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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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If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
Richard Selzer
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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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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
William James
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
Flannery O'Connor
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My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'Brien
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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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...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
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Evelyn Underhill
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Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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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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I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.
Hank Williams III
