Understand Quotes
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.
Randall L. Stephenson -
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali -
And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
Joe Mays -
One should never condemn what one cannot understand.
Han Suyin -
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
Yair Lapid -
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
Raymond Carver
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I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.
Zoe Tapper -
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 -
More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
Jackie Chan -
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
George P. Bush -
I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.
Michelle MacLaren -
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
Fernand Braudel
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus -
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
Walter Kirn -
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
Ice T -
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
Harrison Salisbury -
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
Cameron Sinclair
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
Harold Prince -
I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
Zoe McLellan -
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg -
I thought it was very odd that I had a cross and that I was sticking it in a box saying terrible language. But I have to say that I did not understand.
Linda Blair