Understand Quotes
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Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.
Ewan McGregor
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
Confucius
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Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.
Marianne Williamson
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You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline.
Chogyam Trungpa
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We have a philosophy of we'll keep putting it up until people get it. We did that actually these last three weeks with Cracked Out from New York. People didn't really understand them. We put them up three weeks ago and they just got stared at.
Scott Aukerman
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I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.
Tim Page
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
George Bernard Shaw
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I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.
Agathe Snow
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Without images we can neither think nor understand anything.
Martin Luther
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You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.
Lao Tzu
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He was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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That so few understand me is why I am treasured.
Lao Tzu
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I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.
James Hetfield Metallica
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My true role is to get actors to understand what the camera is doing and what my intent is so they don't waste their good stuff on over-the-shoulder shots and wide shots. They need to know when we're going in to get something important, so they know to really go for it. No human being can give you 1,000 percent on every single take or shot, so you need to let them know what you're heading for. It's important that the actors know they're being looked after and being recorded in a way so they can do their best.
David Nutter
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He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.
Edmund Gosse
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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.
Michael Fassbender
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A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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There is so much more to understand.
Angelina Jolie
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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
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
Seth Godin