Top 100 Understand People Quotes
#1. I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.
Norm MacDonald
#2. It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them
Sunday Adelaja
#3. It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those who sense the profound affinity that exists between the film medium and a desire to understand people.
Robert Gardner
#4. It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.
Donald A. Norman
#5. Novels are ... an unsurpassed form to understand people.
Henning Mankell
#6. If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.
Cesare Pavese
#7. You need to put yourself in their place in order to understand people
Sunday Adelaja
#8. It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
Clement Freud
#10. In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don't think I like reality very much. Principally, I don't understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
Shirley Jackson
#11. When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
James A. Forbes
#12. Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
Carolina Herrera
#13. If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.
Gillian Cross
#15. I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.
Rod McKuen
#16. Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.
Tessa Maurer
#18. I'm afraid of time ... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
Ann Brashares
#19. In Texas, you just learn just be nice to people and respect them, and respect where they're coming from. And understand people have different backgrounds and opinions, and there's nothing you could do about it. And that's what I've realized to shape, I guess, who I am.
Jordan Spieth
#20. Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas.
MC Hammer
#21. Stop trying to understand people. Love them instead.
Mensah Oteh
#22. I don't understand people who won't sign autographs or have pictures taken.
Nikki Sanderson
#23. It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.
Adrien Brody
#24. Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.
Joel Osteen
#25. I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
Mariah Carey
#26. I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater.
Jeff Garlin
#27. I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Princess Diana
#28. Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.
Scott Aukerman
#29. The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
Paul Theroux
#30. You don't understand people like me, like us, the other ones. You're like a bird that flies in the air, a fish that swims in the sea. You move, you look about you, you want things. There are others who live on earth and move just a little and don't look
Iris Murdoch
#31. For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
#32. Friendship scattered across the globe is an enriching exchange: A look outside the box to understand people and their different cultures.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#33. I don't understand people who don't touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.
Jarod Kintz
#34. You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
John Steinbeck
#35. Under friends I just understand people which share the same ideas and thoughts which will mean.... Ops my mistake... I was just looking are you following or you like because of the crowd?
Deyth Banger
#36. I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
Takeru Kobayashi
#37. 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
#38. I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
John Podhoretz
#39. You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
P. J. O'Rourke
#40. I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.
Sparky Anderson
#41. I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross
#42. We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environment is no longer about blocking the wind, it's about knowing why the serving lady was crying last night, or why a particular guard always loses at cards.
Brandon Sanderson
#43. I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
Richard Dawkins
#44. I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
Gary Coleman
#45. I do not understand people who do not read. What are they doing in their free times?
Jamie Dornan
#46. I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren
#47. If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.
John C. Maxwell
#48. I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
Charlie Trotter
#49. You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.
Deb Caletti
#50. I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.
Twiggy
#51. It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.
Diogo Morgado
#52. I could never understand people being scared of things they didn't know nothing about.
S.E. Hinton
#53. Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
Muhammad Ali
#54. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
May Sarton
#55. Lena's voice grew cold. "I don't understand you. I don't understand people like you, who always choose to blame the woman. If there's two people doing something wrong and one of them's a girl, it's got to be her fault, right?
Paula Hawkins
#56. I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!
Lemmy Kilmister
#57. My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.
Moby
#58. I don't understand people who have sex with their dog in the room.
Cameron Diaz
#59. I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.
James McCartney
#60. The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.
Glen Hansard
#61. It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. Forster
#62. As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It's a magical place. The desert. I do understand people's criticisms, but it's a magical place and a beautiful city, even though there are a lot of things that are wrong with it.
Brandon Flowers
#63. I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
Andrew Vachss
#64. You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.
Mia Love
#66. The future, for me, is romantic, I don't understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don't know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.
Raf Simons
#67. You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
Dieter Rams
#68. I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!
Charles M. Schulz
#69. I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#70. Everybody loves their preferred worship expression, and they can't understand people who don't like what they like. We
J.D. Greear
#71. You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.
Yitzhak Rabin
#72. It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
Amber Dermont
#73. The trouble with people is they don't understand people.
David Goodis
#74. She didn't understand people who thrived on argument and being right all the time. Her mother was that way, and what did that get her? Nothing but unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anger.
Amy Tan
#75. I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not?
Mayer Hawthorne
#76. The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
Ava Gardner
#77. I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING." WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?
Terry Pratchett
#78. I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
Anna Quindlen
#79. I'm afraid of not having enough time," she clarified. "Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies.
Ann Brashares
#80. I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"
Gold Panda
#81. I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.
Michael Irvin
#82. Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
Steve Martin
#83. one way to understand people is to pay attention to what they love.
Dan McCall
#84. I don't understand people. They smile when they are mad. They hug people they hate. They steal from people they genuinely love. And they are jealous of babies.
Darynda Jones
#85. Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As
John C. Maxwell
#86. We tend to give up so easy in trying to understand people so we end up judging them !!
Hisham Fawzi
#87. Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.
Shunryu Suzuki
#88. Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.
Timothy Hutton
#89. You want to save the world."
"What's wrong with that?"
He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by."
"I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful.
Jane Rogers
#90. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.
Roman Abramovich
#91. I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.
Patricia Highsmith
#93. I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon
#94. One of those characters who in Angola are often called 'lost frontiers', because by daylight they look white, and at twilight they are discovered in fact to be half mulatto - from which it might be concluded that sometimes you can understand people better further away form the light.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#95. The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.
Edgar Hilsenrath
#96. I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
Susan Jacoby
#97. I do, I'm afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
Katherine Rundell
#98. If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.
Simon Sinek
#99. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
Octavia E. Butler
#100. You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.
Leo Rosten
