Understand Quotes

• 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

• Shooters are shooters. We've got to keep recruiting shooters and we've got to keep getting our kids to understand how much time they have to spend on their shot.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Understand
  • Shooters
  • ids

• Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.

  

  Katty Kay
  • People
  • Policy
  • Economist

• I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

  

  Noelle Stevenson
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Understand

• As changes take place in my life, I continue to watch them truly work out for my good-if I can just wait on God to see me through. What makes all the difference is trust-the understanding that God has a much bigger plan than mine even if I don't understand it. I'm grateful, yet sorry, that I have had to learn so many lessons by hindsight.

  

  Kathy Troccoli
  • God
  • Learn
  • Difference

• I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Way
  • Understand
  • Working

• That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.

  

  Emily Raboteau
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Judging

• No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • People
  • Understand
  • No Matter What

• We have an obligation to enforce the border, ... it's important for the people of this state to understand, your voices are being heard in Washington, D.C.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • People
  • Obligation
  • Washington

• When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Years
  • Understand
  • Born

• What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Energy
  • Audience
  • Understand

• People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

  

  Georges Doriot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Well

• Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Understand
  • Souls

• You never understand anybody that loves you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Understand
  • Loves

• 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

• And I felt so foreign, lying there, the wind howling outside our window. What was I doing here? Who was Rafe, really? Can you just put a part of yourself on hold? And if you do, does it cease to be true? Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • True
  • Hold
  • Straight

• I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • People
  • Songs
  • Mr Brightside

• The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Gun
  • Questions
  • Flight

• I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Mean
  • Understand
  • Characters

• Was Jesus sleeping? There are mysteries of your wisdom and creation that we don't understand.

  

  Craig Parker
  • Wisdom
  • Jesus
  • Mysteries

• I really do wish people could understand me some day.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Understand

• One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

  

  Michael Flanders
  • Problems
  • Poor
  • Talk

• I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.

  

  Dale Hansen
  • Always
  • Understand
  • Comfortable

• Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

  

  Michael Foreman
  • Things
  • Structure
  • Teaches

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