Understand Quotes

• ...the more you talk of it, the less you understand.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Understand
  • Talk
  • Less

• Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute you meet them, ... Then, getting to know them, you begin to understand them -- that's what he's interested in, and so am I.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • People
  • Real
  • Minute

• I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Want
  • Know
  • Meet

• Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Understand
  • Imagine
  • Satisfaction

• The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?

  

  Amado Nervo
  • Understand
  • Public
  • Circle

• We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Pain
  • Understand
  • Psychology

• Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hate
  • Understand
  • Poison

• I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Lord
  • Plan
  • Message

• The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

  

  Saul Steinberg
  • Artist
  • Understand
  • Evolutions

• Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Success
  • Understand
  • Provided

• I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

  

  Ray Dalio
  • Economic
  • Relationships
  • Machine

• You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Cancer

• We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Father
  • Souls
  • Thee

• Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • People
  • Weapons
  • Sanctions

• On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Old
  • To Do
  • Liked

• I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Car
  • Japanese
  • Radio

• There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Heart
  • Sound

• Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

  

  Susan Brooks
  • Important
  • Understand
  • Budget

• Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.

  

  Anthony de Jasay
  • Fame
  • Student
  • Prose

• You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

  

  Dennis Oppenheim
  • Pieces
  • Photographs
  • Sculptor

• I'm restless and wild. I fall, but I try. I need someone to understand.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Fall
  • Understand

• I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Understand
  • England

• I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.

  

  Danae Elon
  • Should
  • Storytellers
  • Traditionally

• It's the rider's job to really understand what makes the horse work and try to think ahead of the horse so we understand what's going to happen and how the horse feels on that day.

  

  Ben Maher
  • Feel
  • Understand
  • Horse

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