Understand Quotes
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky -
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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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
Paul Schrader -
I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.
Jostein Gaarder -
I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
Guan Moye -
From working with Ralph Lauren, I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn't understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That's why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph - he owns that garment.
Simon Spurr -
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 -
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes
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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 -
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey -
After all the years of spiritual work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.
Geri Larkin -
I’m someone who’d rather understand reality than play pretends.
Liza Koshy -
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 -
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
George Steiner
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We all grew up as huge wrestling fans, and we need to understand why we liked it so much.
Paul Michael Levesque -
We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.
Richard Ojeda -
People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.
Nikki Glaser -
To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
Deena Metzger -
Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.
Gary Myers -
The one thing I don't understand is war.
Muhammad Ali
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Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey -
So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear from the record that it does things that we don’t fully understand. And we’re not going to understand them in the time period we have to make these decisions. We just know they’re there. We may say, ‘We just don’t want to do this to ourselves.’ If it’s a problem like that, then asking whether it’s practical or not is really not going to help very much. Whether it’s practical depends on how much we give a damn.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.
Darren McCarty -
If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.
Sibel Kekilli