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.

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.

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?

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.

There are things that the heart thinks of that only the body understands; that is why i dance.

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.

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t...

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn’t just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It’s short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to...

We’re in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or...

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don’t understand at all because the culture’s so strange to me.

I started modeling when I was – not older, but not 12. I have a mom who’s a feminist – she’s an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that...

I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new –...

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past.

If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can’t understand, will certainly think of you...

I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don’t always translate to English.

We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to...

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn’t getting it and I couldn’t understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class,...

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as...

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the composition of ancient pots. You have to be able to...

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don’t want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn’t work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your...

Africans need to be kicked, that’s the only thing they understand.

I don’t like rap that you can’t understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don’t understand...

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.

On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren’t so...

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it...

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Part of an actor’s job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I’ve learned that there’s a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don’t understand, or they miss the point. And I’m not saying that’s...

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.