Understood Quotes

Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

Have read little and understood less.

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand me.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.

When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.