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• I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their immediate aims, this mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Design, Decision

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• I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.

  Ben Affleck

  Couple, Swings, Yesterday

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• All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Numbers, Discipline

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• What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

  Morton Feldman

  Art, Six, Moments

  Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”

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• When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Men, Bvb

  "Fictional character: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew". "Horatio Hornblower 3", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Baby, World, Fit

  Interview with Moviesonline.ca, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

  Willie Aames

  Mean, Idols, Magazines

  "How Willie Aames Went From Teen Heartthrob To Cruise Ship Director" by Lynn Okura, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Player, Years, Eight

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• He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.

  Bobby Fischer

  Kings, Father, School

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• Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth.

  Peter Deunov

  People, Degrees, Earth

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• I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

  Kapil Dev

  Intelligent, Amnesty, Dictionary

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• Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

  John Fairclough

  Men, People, Understanding

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• The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?

  Craig Ferguson

  Brother, Uncles, Book

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• I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

  Patrick Lussier

  Accomplishment, Made

  Source: collider.com

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• Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.

  Alex Abreu

  Risk, Firsts, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

  John Sculley

  Apples, Design, Lenses

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

  Gemma Arterton

  Sleep, Thinking, People

  "Gemma Arterton Exclusive Interview Tamara Drewe; Plus a Clash Of The Titans 2 Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.

  Colin Powell

  Strong, Responsibility, Government

  "Interview With Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was a realization for me when Oprah was talking about New Moon. I was like, "Oh, my god, she's watched a movie that I've been in!" People were like, "It just kicked in for you?," but it's just work for me. The idea that somebody that I've admired for so long had seen something that I'd done was when I understood the magnitude of it.

  Tinsel Korey

  Moon, Talking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Character, Successful, Romance

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• Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Might, Facts

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• Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Honesty, Real

  "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper". Book by Diane Upright, 1987.

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• To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Reality, Technique, Photographer

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• Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.

  Vilem Flusser

  Memories, Victory, Cameras

  Vilém Flusser (2013). “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”, p.59, Reaktion Books

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