Understand Quotes
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I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.
Swizz Beatz -
Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.
Declan Lynch -
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
Dean L. Larsen -
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
Billy Joel -
Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.
Paul Craig Roberts -
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.
Albert Einstein -
There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
Adrienne von Speyr -
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
John Stuart Mill -
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Billy Joel
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To understand something is to be delivered of it.
Baruch Spinoza -
Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
Marianne Williamson -
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
Roland Martin -
So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
Catherynne M. Valente -
I don't think we can understand who we are without illuminating the steps that led us here. And I like to remind people we have a really good knowledge base if we would just pay attention to what's already there - it keeps us from being too arrogant.
Deborah Blum
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For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.
David Altmejd -
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
Catherine McCormack -
You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
Billy Joel -
Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?
Alan Alda