Quotes About Understanding

Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

I didn't understand at first why I couldn't meet a guy for so long. But as time goes by, I understood why actresses usually get married late. I think their hearts for work become bigger and happiness from the work takes the most space in their hearts.

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

A pain plan is something that's very understood between you and your healthcare provider.

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.