Top 1200 Understand Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

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

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

I don't understand how any black person can tell me that they're not pro-gun.

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?

I totally understand skepticism, and I think it's so important for me to show validation of my readings.

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating me a certain way because of who my dad was. Some people wanted to be friends, others wanted to test me because I was Chris Eubank's son - inside schools, outside of school, on the streets.

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how we think: that is, how a mere handful of matter can perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate a world far larger and more complicated than itself. The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, goes further still: it attempts not just to understand but also to build intelligent entities.

It took me a long time, not necessarily to come out, but to understand how I was feeling. It wasn't planned for me to come out with 'First Girl' or anything. I just so happened to have met my current girlfriend on the set.

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.

Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one's chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances; once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture.

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

I tied so much of my self-worth - and trust me, if you're a runner, you understand this - to my performance.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

If you watch me for a long time, you'll really understand and appreciate the way I play.

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

It took me a long time to understand not to get caught up in other people's expectations. It really comes down to creative fulfillment. It took me a while to realize I don't want to just be on a show to be on a show.

I think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.

And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off you." "I suppose you're going to tell me now that only you have the right to touch me." "I see we understand each other.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

Random Girl after a hookup: "Do you love me" Tucker: "I don't understand the question.

The hard thing for me, and it took me many years to understand, the concept of Hollywood not being a meritocracy - I am a middle child, and as most middle children will tell you, that never goes away, wishing the world was fair and understanding.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

It took me about a year to understand and to feel the support from the transgender community.

I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.