Understand Quotes
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
Eddie Huang
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
Imran Amed
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If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.
Lao Tzu
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
P. J. O'Rourke
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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
U Thant
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If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
Dale Earnhardt
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All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
Fernand Braudel
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It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
Bram Stoker
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Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
Ramana Maharshi
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You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
Emmet Gowin
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
Yair Lapid
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I want to be me, I can only be me. Whatever it is, I want to understand it by seeing it with my own eyes, by hearing it with my own ears.
Jun Matsumoto
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A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.
Rashard Lewis
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The more I know, the less I understand...
Don Henley The Eagles
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
Edgar Wright
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Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
Adam Pally
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When you understand the Atonement, then you understand the joy of being rescued.
M. Russell Ballard
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
Lao Tzu
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso
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I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
Flannery O'Connor
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I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.
Wadada Leo Smith