Top 100 Understands Quotes
#1. The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16)
Confucius
#2. An insane person is, basically, someone that isn't true to himself and lives between the reality he understands and the distorted perspective of it that he's trying to control. And the bigger this gap is, the more you can be sure to be in front of a neurotic or psychotic individual.
Daniel Marques
#3. ... the owl is skeptical of her possessions. She understands that in many circumstances, power can be measured not by what she has, but by what she is able to do without.
Frank Rivers
#4. The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.
Martin Fowler
#6. One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
Henry James
#8. I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.
Paulo Coelho
#9. I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
David R. Brower
#10. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
#11. My advice is to sell any high tech company when the United States brings an antitrust suit, not because the company will be harmed by the suit, but because by the time the government understands a tech business well enough to sue it, the world has moved on.
John McGinnis
#12. I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!
Charlie Crist
#13. It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J.D. Salinger
#14. When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.
Abhishek Ratna
#15. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.
Laozi
#16. Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#17. It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#18. No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. This human understands enough to know when he's being messed with.
Ernest Cline
#20. I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
Townes Van Zandt
#21. I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.
Courtney Summers
#22. There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinson
#23. Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently,
Wastes not breathe on others affairs; possess foremost mark of wisdom truly.
[25] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#24. Civil marriage is a very serious problem. I think that even the religious understands that we must look for some kind of a solution because we have some contradictions. I'm sure there are many solutions.
Avigdor Lieberman
#25. I was like little-miss wannabe punk-rocker; I would go home and secretly listen to Pink, and dance around, like, 'Ugh, she understands me so well!'
Emily Meade
#26. All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.
Wendy Beckett
#27. I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.
Charlie Munger
#28. For everyone says something repeatedly and is misunderstood, this is the only point where everybody understands everybody else, he said, I thought. One
Thomas Bernhard
#29. I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
Sandra Cisneros
#30. [Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.
Peter Vidmar
#31. I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.
Carine Roitfeld
#32. I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.
Juliet Marillier
#33. Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.
Jodi Picoult
#34. When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.
Victoria Schwab
#35. Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
Ma Jun
#36. The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
Confucius
#37. There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#38. What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#40. professional is one who understands how their industry works.
Angela Megasko
#41. But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
Daphne Du Maurier
#42. Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.
Stephen Kinzer
#43. The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.
Arthur L. Herman
#44. Everyone understands when you're disappointed and betrayed in a major way.
Kristine A. Wolberg
#45. I have some good friends here, but no one really understands why I am here or what I do. I don't know of anyone, though, who would have more than a partial understanding; I have gone too far alone.
Jon Krakauer
#46. The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
Max Azria
#47. Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
John Bonham
#48. I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.
Vladimir Putin
#49. It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.
Anna Wintour
#50. The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
Anton Chekhov
#51. No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
#52. It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.
Dennis Ross
#53. My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
Judy Blume
#54. I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.
Claudia Rankine
#55. The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.
James Toback
#56. Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
Karl Kraus
#57. When you hit the things that are relevant to the next generation, - it's a way for young people to feel like "Somebody understands me. Church is not irrelevant. I feel that my hurts are being addressed. Things that I am concerned about are being talked about."
Patricia Mauceri
#58. Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you.
William S. Burroughs
#59. While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.
Susan Jeffers
#60. Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#61. When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.
Lana Del Rey
#62. Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.
Andy Stanley
#63. They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back.
Chloe Thurlow
#64. My wife is used to Formula One, and she understands the life.
Romain Grosjean
#65. Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.
Rumi
#66. As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.
Austin Ligon
#67. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.
John Dean
#68. Prudent man or woman understands that all of life is connected. He is aware of the cause-and-effect relationship between what he chooses today and what he experiences tomorrow .
Lysa TerKeurst
#69. Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J.C. Ryle
#70. You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who's directed, because an actor who's directed understands all the problems your production is going through.
Clint Eastwood
#71. Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
Victor Hugo
#72. If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.
Elmore Leonard
#73. Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
Allan Houston
#74. A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you for who you are today.
Aleatha Romig
#75. Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs
#76. If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Bruno Latour
#77. The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
Adriana Trigiani
#78. Lizzie Darbury won't do," Vivian said. "She never understands Harry's jokes. She just stares at him as if he's a bit touched in the head and doesn't laugh." "And that's important," Louisa said. "Men do hate it when we don't find them amusing. Especially Harry. It quite upsets him.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#79. The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.
Leigh Bardugo
#80. As someone who understands why you did this, and admires your ability to actually accomplish it, I am-pleading with you. Cinder. Please. Take me back."
She filled up her lungs. "No.
Marissa Meyer
#81. Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create.
Shannon Lynette
#82. Only God understands and reveals such a prophecy. Never will any man uncover or stumble onto such a prophecy - or any prophecy of God.
Gerald Flurry
#83. It's a unique fraternity to be a standup. I think everybody understands, you know, opportunity, and everybody - especially at the top - are genuinely rooting for you.
Michael Che
#84. Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.
Millard Sheets
#85. These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in which reputations are edgily tended and a man can be brought low by status anxiety. Poets, or at least this poet, are as earthbound as the rest.
Ian McEwan
#86. History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.
Alice Hoffman
#87. It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
Lena Dunham
#88. If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'
Terence McKenna
#89. The ultimate question is why they go at all; and anybody who really understands that question will know that it always has been and always will be a religious question; or at any rate a philosophical or metaphysical question.
G.K. Chesterton
#90. We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.
Stephen Breyer
#91. If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
#92. No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
Martin Luther
#93. I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
R. Kelly
#94. Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
Aristophanes
#95. I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
Jack Kemp
#96. The LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you" (1 Chron. 28:9). In her bitterness she sought her Lord.
Beth Moore
#98. Only the one who fully understands the importance of time can enjoy it.
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Nelson Mandela said it this way, "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.
Christopher Marco
#100. Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
Carmen Bernos De Gasztold
