Understand Me Quotes - Page 2

• WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

  Maimonides

  Real, Reading, Believe

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.159, Aeterna Press

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• I think we've reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it's kind of hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Football, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

  Albert Camus

  Unity, World, Principles

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• Thank you,” Skulduggery said to her. “I fear he was about to start insulting me.” “I couldn’t let that happen,” she said. “Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing.” “You see? You understand me.

  Derek Landy

  Delicate Things, Ego, Insulting

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• I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

  Robbie Fowler

  Thinking, Hands, Careers

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Only younger brothers will understand me. We're following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Brother, Want, Following

  "'We are brothers in arms but not clones,' says Wladimir Klitschko". Interview with Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

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• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  George Woodward Warder

  Heaven, Would Be, Looks

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• I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

  Anne Stevenson

  Writing, Meditation, Used

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• I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand. "I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again." I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand. "Go," he says.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Hands, Alex

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

  Justin Bieber

  People, Generations, Cobain

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• Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence.

  Khem Veasna

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

  Debby Ryan

  Brother, Vision, Helping

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• My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

  Egon Schiele

  Mother, Sacrifice, Understanding

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• Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in love. It will be your constant companion. Shadowing you, peeping in your windows, calling you at all hours to leave messages like, Only you understand me.

  Colson Whitehead

  Falling In Love, Inspiration, Messages

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• Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Bed, Needs

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• I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

  Keith Urban

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

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• To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

  Edith Piaf

  Successful, People, France

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• My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Good Man

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.24

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• I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

  John Forbes Nash

  Careers, Leader, Would Be

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• The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Character, Play, I Can

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• I understand men much better than most women I know.

  Catherine Bell

  Men, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

  Tommy Chong

  Able, Nuance, Spoken Word

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• Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Risk, Males

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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