Understood Quotes - Page 15

• I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Gita, Passages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

  Douglas Adams

  Horse, Animal, Ordinary

  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ch. 2 (1987)

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• I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Ideas, Band

  Source: www.inlander.com

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• I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

  Kevin Spacey

  Games, Long, Events

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, School, Age

  Source: garyboalnireland.blogspot.com

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• My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

  Elie Wiesel

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

  Oliver Kahn

  Football, Fun, Men

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Law, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Parent

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• In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Fall, People, Forever

  Source: quarterlyconversation.com

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• I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

  Raj Thackeray

  People, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."

  Jose Parla

  Hate, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Photography, Taken, Expression

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• It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Reading, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, People, Division

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Political, Understanding

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.88

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• If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

  Robert Byrd

  Office, Political, Term Limits

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• To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.

  Dee Hock

  Business, Believe, Organization

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• In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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• I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

  Aaron Rose

  Artist, Important, Speak

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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