I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Live with a bias toward action. Ironically, this will teach you patience. When you take action each day, you learn the value of accumulating small improvements over time. You understand how daily habits compound. Be...

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

I just wish I could understand my father.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

It’s terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It’s a miracle. I don’t understand it. I live it very intensely.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn’t understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a...

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental… that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

Too many people chase dreams that they don’t understand. Too many people try to go for things that they’d like to do, but they’re not realistic enough to know they don’t have the talent.

Any time there is ‘un-forgiveness’ between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don’t understand… there is suffering.

No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you...

You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to...

What you have to understand about period drama is that it’s ‘history light.’

American Muslims – young American Muslims in particular – are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for...

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don’t understand.

All we have to do is understand that we’re all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that...

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can’t even talk about my own handicap because it’s too upsetting.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a ‘cultural Christian’ who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do...

Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing...

There are things people don’t understand. And they do what they want. There are rules that are not meant to be broken.

To understand anything is to make less the depth of experience than knowing something……

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn’t understand her English, because she was Chinese.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself – early enough to make use of it – was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me...

I don’t see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I don’t understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don’t get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

We have created Black, White, Asian, and other racial Churches; but we fail to understand that there is only one Church and one Gospel.It is the Church and Gospel of Jesus Christ. John 1:12

I like poetry when I don’t quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn’t just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn’t work like that.

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into...

It’s really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I’ll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something...

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it’s just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when...