Understand Quotes
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I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.
Michael Cooper
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You have to have a deep knowledge of the game to take on the role; you have to understand intricately who the people are in world rugby, intricately about the community game and you can't be learning on the job.
Nick Farr-Jones
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If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.
Gerald Hausman
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The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
John Ruskin
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[...] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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
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Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
Joseph Mawle
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.
Rima Fakih
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I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.
Nina Berman
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If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.
Sibel Kekilli
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
Martin Luther
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The one thing I don't understand is war.
Muhammad Ali
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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People can be cruel. People hate what they don’t understand.” “But, Dad, they don’t want to understand.” “Maybe they don’t. But we have to find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn’t turn us into hurt animals.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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If you don’t understand what other people want, you can’t help them get what they want and they can’t help you get what you want.
Neil Balme
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A lot of people say things to us. We're so young and, I guess, cute. We want people to watch our sport and understand it.
Jamie Johnson
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
Gautama Buddha
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Cesare Pavese
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor Hugo
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Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.
Mike Bouchard
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Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael Gerber
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Soren Kierkegaard