Top 640 Understand Quotes

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn’t gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it’s going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates’, then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you’ve made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who’s been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn’t be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you’re trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.

It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I’m a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I’ve come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It’s the only insurance against irrelevance. It’s the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It’s the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

With the feminist movement – a good movement which I support – there’s been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we’re all trying to understand the world around us.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played – the part he acted – and we must also know his audience.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

It’s not all about talent. It’s about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you’re coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

I’ll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it!

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

For most of my life I’ve liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that’s running on principles that we don’t even understand.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.

My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it’s really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

A child does not understand the spiritual forces coming against him, so it is up to the parents to fight the spiritual battles and keep Satan out of the child’s life.

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I’m trying to do more. When I’m singing, I don’t want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.