They Don't Understand Quotes

#1. Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Jennifer Beals

#2. As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.

Elliott Erwitt

#3. They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Russell Means

#4. They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

T. S. Eliot

#5. Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal.

Robert Helpmann

#6. The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

Rob Walton

#7. Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset

Tony Dovale

#8. That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Mary Wesley

#9. Take photos with hater n-ggas and crop them. I am not them. I photoshop them out 'cause they don't understand what I'm about.

Drake

#10. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.

Chris Priestley

#11. Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Malcolm Forbes

#12. My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

Jay Ryan

#13. I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Gray Davis

#14. People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

Sam Altman

#15. The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

Mario Testino

#17. People try to make names for things they don't understand

Rene Denfeld

#18. Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

Sam Shepard

#19. People don't remember what they don't understand, it seems.

Kat Beyer

#20. Straight people have it so much easier. They don't understand. They can't. There's no such thing as openly straight.

Bill Konigsberg

#21. Remember that most people, human or cryptid, don't like what they don't understand. They're not wired for that kind of compassion. Feel sorry for them, unless they form an angry mob and march on your house. When that happens, release the hounds. - Evelyn Baker

Seanan McGuire

#22. The witless destroy what they don't understand.

Loretta Chase

#23. People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.

Ann Weil

#24. It's because they don't understand good sex has nothing to do with equality.

Nic Kelman

#25. Of course, being angry is pointless. Unproductive. They don't understand yet. That they are all waiting for that one phone call that will change everything. That every one of them will feel like me eventually. Because someone they love will die. It's one of life's cruel certainties.

Cynthia Hand

#26. When people count on someone, the person they're counting on doesn't realise it. I mean - they might notice it, but they don't understand how seriously, how desperately, the other person's depending on them.

Shuichi Yoshida

#27. It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#28. They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.

Amelia Gray

#29. Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors

Gerald M. Weinberg

#30. There is none so quick to dismiss what they don't understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason.

Paula Brackston

#31. I don't like to open up to people
much. The more you do, the more
they don't understand. The
more frustrated you become,
the worse you feel.

R H Sin

#32. Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#33. To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don't understand themselves.

Nikolai Leskov

#34. People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Jessica Ennis

#35. For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.

Aesop Rock

#36. People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything.

Frederick Lenz

#37. People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Bill Laswell

#38. It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

J. D. Pardo

#39. There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Robert Mondavi

#40. Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear.

Matt Haig

#41. There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.

Adam Rogers

#42. They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

Coolio

#43. I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.

Benicio Del Toro

#44. People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

Patrick Ewing

#45. I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.

Muriel Barbery

#46. It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Tom Stewart

#47. A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Giovanni Ribisi

#48. Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

Malcolm Gladwell

#49. Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

Stephen Colbert

#50. You don't know anything about fear and hate," he told me. "Fear and hate aren't rational emotions, and they damn sure don't depend on the existence of valid reasons. People hate because they're afraid. People are afraid because they don't understand.

Bobby Adair

#51. Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#52. People love those they can, but hate those they don't understand.

Dora Okeyo

#53. The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to correct those people. We're not sure who to side with.

Tim Cameron

#54. Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1

Charles R. Swindoll

#55. When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

Manny Montana

#56. This is the moral, Oh My Best Beloved: never kill anyone for a 'Cause'.
For why not, Uncle Basher?
Because causes don't pay, Little Friend of all the World. Adherents expect you to kill just for the righteousness of it. They don't want to pay you! They don't understand why you want paying!

Kim Newman

#57. If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.

Guy Claxton

#58. It's amazing what some scientist will do to invent something new or learn about something they don't understand. They're like psychos with a license.

Brandy Nacole

#59. What I do now for the people they don't understand it, but when they found it they won't have chance to back 10 or 5 years and to read this which I have and to use it for something more than this.

Deyth Banger

#60. I hope they understand that I really understand
That they don't understand

Kid Cudi

#61. Those who play the 'innocent' role are nothing more than foolish and ignorant masses who close their minds to the true nature of the world. Innocence is nothing more than an illusion created by mortal kind to cope with what they don't understand.

Brittany Comeaux

#62. Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.

William Gaddis

#63. Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

Laura Linney

#64. There are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

George Eliot

#65. We live in bad times. People do harm to those they don't understand. There is nothing worse than a closed mind and the blind trust that you are the only person to be right.

Leora Cika Waldman

#66. What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger ... a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!

Billy Connolly

#67. Dog bark at what they don't understand.

Heraclitus

#68. the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.

Colson Whitehead

#69. Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

William Petersen

#70. There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it

Marilyn Manson

#71. Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

Yasmin Mogahed

#72. Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon.

Joe Biden

#73. I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

Tom Hodgkinson

#74. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

Tallulah Bankhead

#75. Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

Marc Chagall

#76. I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.

Christopher Isherwood

#77. I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Edith Piaf

#78. Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand.

Patricia Nedelea

#79. People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.

Andrew Smith

#80. It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Nancy Werlin

#81. There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having this career. I guess that's bizarre. What they don't understand is that this is all stuff that's really new.

Megan Fox

#82. Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Alfred De Musset

#83. They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

Frederick Lenz

#84. By the time my children are born, I know it's possible that they can grow up in a world where they don't understand that there were ever any dividers between people and why we have the issues we do today. That's my goal in this life.

Jason Mraz

#85. Men scorn what they don't understand".

Arthur Conan Doyle

#86. You know the difference between guys and girls? Usually girls say it's no different whatsoever. But you see, a lot of girls they don't understand that they are better than us guys. If you think about it, they are much more manipulative.

Tommy Wiseau

#87. Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

Guru Nanak

#88. Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Heraclitus

#89. People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

Elvis Presley

#90. A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Michael Heizer

#91. Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

Magnus Scheving

#92. Guys will NEVER understand what it is like to be a girl and all the pain we have to deal with therefore they should shut up about things they don't understand. Likewise girls will NEVER know what it is like to be a guy and all the pressure they deal with, so shut up girls as well.

Megan Wilson

#93. One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.

Aaron Ross

#94. No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Chris Ware

#95. I do believe that models should be older now. You tell girls to go and catwalk and be sexy, but some of these girls have never even experienced their first kiss, so they don't understand how to be like that.

Shanina Shaik

#96. I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.

Yoweri Museveni

#97. Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

Dennis Miller

#98. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

Terri Cheney

#99. Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

Dan Brown

#100. Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

John Milius