Understand Quotes
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We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
Marianne Williamson
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The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
Marianne Williamson -
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 -
If something's wrong with my body, I make sure to address it right away and not try to let it linger because it creates a bigger problem. You just have to understand your body, and when your body tells you something you just have to react.
Champ Bailey -
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
John Stuart Mill -
People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony.
Judith Butler -
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
Charles Dickens -
You say it as you understand it.
Friedrich Schiller -
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Flannery O'Connor -
I've tried to get them to understand that on the road you have to take the game. You have to win it. It's not going to be handed to you no matter what the situation is, and teams are not going to fold at home. You must take the game.
J. M. Roberts -
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Ava Gardner
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
Alan Alda -
I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
Oscar Wilde -
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
Confucius -
There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.
Donald Miller -
Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.
Patrick Ness
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I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions in great geographic cycles. Here, life and death are only different points on a continuum. The stream flows in a circle through time and space, turning death into life across coastal ecosystems, as it has for more than a million years. But such streams no longer flow in the places where most of us live.
Kathleen Moore -
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 understand people's weekends. They just plan to go to clubs and drink and dance and go home, and then do it over again.
Andrew Evans -
It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
Barbara Fredrickson