Understood Quotes

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.