What I’m trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there’s inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have...

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written...

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and...

It’s very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it’s ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly...

‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was one of my father’s favorite records, which I obviously didn’t understand when I was young. To be honest, I don’t really have too many memories of hearing it, but...

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am....

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn’t help me to understand the world I lived in.

I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease...

Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand.

I would come, many years later, to understand why ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is considered ‘an important novel’, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked...

There are occasions when I’ve pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it’s absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand...

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

It’s not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you...

Humanity doesn’t need to be understood, if you can practice it

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you!

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

I don’t understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

We’re learning as we go. We’re a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

There’s a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don’t know why, you know? But they like it even if they can’t understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.

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...

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.