Top 1200 Understand Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

You don't have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

Gandhiji was educated in an English atmosphere, and if you understand the British, you can truly understand his principle of offering the other cheek when you are slapped on one.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

You can only understand if you've had the technique done to you. It's like food. You can't describe the taste, but if you've tasted it, you know what it is. You have to personally experience it to understand.

With all due respect to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, neither of them understand Texas, nor do they understand the U.S.-Mexico border.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

I understand how important the automakers are to America. And I understand a bankruptcy; a failure in that industry wouldn't be a good thing. It's something we should avoid.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

I understand that Adrenaline Mob is not going to be every Dream Theater fan's cup of tea. I totally get that; I understand that. It's different world.

You can't force anyone to understand anything that they don't want to understand.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who has survived past anyone's expectations, and make the simple assumption it wasn't an accident, and you understand why he did what he did, now you're ready to predict ... The key to forecasting is to understand both the constraints nations are under and the manner in which the struggle for power shapes leaders.

The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

I understand there are bumps in the road. I understand there's a lot of noise that I don't want to listen to, and I just try to do my job to the best of my ability.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I understand that flamenco has very specific rules and codes, and there's the weight of tradition, so I can understand when people do not enjoy something that is more heterodox.