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.

Understand life’s mysteries – as mysteries to be lived.

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.

Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn’t understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.

You just need to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are...

People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want...

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn’t understand what being an actor meant anymore.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don’t really understand the world of celebrity. That’s just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I’m at sea with.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important....

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don’t bother them.

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what’s behind my decision. It’s simple. I have always believed that every...

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

On the other hand, I don’t understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn’t have thrown it out.

Only when you’re in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you’ve made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand...

The things you don’t know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control...

I don’t think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you’re showing them the things you are showing them.

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved...

I feel like I’ve got a novel in me somewhere, but that’s something… I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who’s a writer as well, and he’s nearly done with his...

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we’ve been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as...

There’s a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don’t know where it came from, and I don’t understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it’s going to sting when it flips,...

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn’t speak.

When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of those are worth committing all.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

In fairness, I don’t think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are… Just the same way that people like a good...

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.