It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
I’m not about my breasts; I’m just about good health, OK. I’m not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don’t understand women who are in denial, who don’t want to go for a mammogram. I think it’s stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
I think it’s a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra – especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
If you weren’t with me when I had nothing, then you can’t really understand me.
As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you’re going to go and really being able to understand what’s feasible at the time.
People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s – and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.
I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, ‘Huh? What?’
I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
I understand only three things – films, fitness, and food.
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it’s very vague.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
There’s no stopping same-sex dancing couples. I don’t understand how people being happy can affect others so much – just let them be.
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
I don’t understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It’s very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
It isn’t easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful… it’s difficult. It’s something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
If we understand the worm, we understand life.
‘Mom’ is an emotional family drama that’s also thrilling. It’s the story about a mother and a daughter, their emotions, and how their lives change. Being a mother myself helped me understand those emotions better.
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.
There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn’t feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that’s why I completely fell apart.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
When you’re working with someone new, it takes a second to understand their instincts and range. It’s not really conscious.
I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.
There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I’m amazed they don’t understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
If you don’t understand your limitations you won’t achieve much in your life.
Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.
The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible – that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
As with all my work, whether it’s a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I’m trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Nobody has really tried to understand me or my behaviour, which just reflected my decision to enjoy life to the full.
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
I don’t understand why God took him and didn’t take me.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.
We understand that America’s prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.
The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they’re doing.
What we don’t understand we can make mean anything.
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology – the plays of Shakespeare and so on.
I saw ‘The Shining’ in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
A lot of people believe Italian food is tasty because there are a lot of ingredients. But they don’t understand that the reason why it’s tasty is because there are less ingredients than in any other cuisine.
One thing I didn’t understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn’t buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn’t know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
