Understand Quotes
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When I wanted someone to give me the world, you accepted me and smiled and let me know that you were my girl. When I wanted fancy things- gold watches, diamond rings, you gave me your hand ’cause only you could understand.
Boyz II Men
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The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.
Eben Moglen
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Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.
Adrienne C. Moore
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin
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The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
Niels Diffrient
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If you not longer let the community hear all of it's significant voices - you begin to have; a single narrow view of: the problems of the society, of the solutions of society - and you begun soon or later overwhelmed by the society you don't understand.
Ben Bagdikian
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The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?
Neal Bascomb
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There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
Eric Thomas
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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Arthur Helps
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I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.
Simon McBurney
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We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.
Allan Sandage
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In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.
Walter Abish
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Jonathan Ive
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The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.
Mitch Landrieu
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I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural - the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
Roberto Cavalli
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I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
Michael Frayn
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
Salvador Dali
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It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
Amit Abraham
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Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Lao Tzu
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The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
Nancy Etcoff
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
Raza Jaffrey