Top 60 Want To Be Understood Quotes
#1. I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
Charlize Theron
#2. If you want to be loved, LOVE. If you want to be understood, UNDERSTAND. If you want peace, MAKE PEACE. If you want light, LIGHT. If you want to be seen, SHINE. If you want to be heard, LISTEN.
Abhishek Kumar
#3. I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
Lil' Wayne
#5. He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.
Ayn Rand
#6. Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.
Greg Epstein
#7. 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.
Miuccia Prada
#8. Someone once told me women want to be understood, while men want to be accepted.
Opal Mellon
#9. I've got people I want to understand and people I want to be understood by.
Haruki Murakami
#10. My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.
Fiona Apple
#11. People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#12. Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Mary Gaitskill
#13. Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Jeff Bezos
#14. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.
Selena Haskins
#15. At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
Gautama Buddha
#16. Don't try to understand women.
Women don't want to be understood,
they just want to be loved.
It is men who crave understanding.
Manoj Vaz
#17. I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#18. I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
Allison Pearson
#19. Obscurity is Japan's outermost defense. The country doesn't want to be understood.
David Mitchell
#20. We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood - heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.
Deborah Tannen
#21. It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.
Blanche Willis Howard
#22. All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Gertrude Atherton
#23. Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
Matthew Perry
#24. This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.
Tom Robbins
#25. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
#26. The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
Saint Augustine
#27. If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
Johnny Ball
#28. I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for the sake of a hopeless hope. He wanted to die as himself out of his life. He didn't want his death to be the end of a technological process.
Wendell Berry
#29. One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
Nate Berkus
#30. I want to be sure ... that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood? ... Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing? ... Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.
Richard M. Nixon
#31. What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood ... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
Mary Ellen Mark
#32. Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.
Anthony Zerbe
#33. No one is the way they seem.We all hide little pieces,either because we don't want to be judged,or because we don't think we'll be understood,or simply because we don't want those pieces of us to belong to anyone but us
Katy Evans
#34. Her laugh was a travesty. Which made sense because in a way, so was his apology. But what was he supposed to say?
I want you until I hurt. Until I sweat.
I love you with a raw, bleeding need that I've never understood.
And all I know for sure is that you can never be mine.
Jessica Bird
#35. I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.
DMX
#36. The war against working people should be understood to be a real war ... . Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class ... . And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don't want anybody else to know about it.
Noam Chomsky
#37. I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?
Imogen Heap
#38. Sometimes I think I want to run away and disappear but what I really want is to be understood.
Tina J. Richardson
#39. I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#40. Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
Grover Norquist
#41. The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.
Theaster Gates
#42. Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand
in the same sense that I have understood
that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
Hannah Arendt
#43. Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.
Donald Symons
#44. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
#45. What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
Urs Fischer
#46. I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
Arnold Friberg
#47. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.
John C. Maxwell
#48. I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
Boyd Rice
#49. A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery.
Marc Ian Barasch
#50. The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.
Jean Francois Revel
#51. I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.
Tess Gerritsen
#52. I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.
Al Franken
#53. He wanted his brother to be happy, but he also didn't want Lauren to have to lose her family in the process, because he couldn't imagine losing his so he understood how she felt.
K.C. Mills
#54. I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.
Shakti Gawain
#55. I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
Cory Booker
#56. My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.
James Anderson
#57. She lived her life as a dragon and never understood those who didn't. Why anyone would want to be human was beyond her understanding ... And damn it all, she was brilliant!
G.A. Aiken
#58. There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where - anywhere.
Jerome K. Jerome
#59. That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.
John Dieterich
#60. The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.
Neal Boortz
