Understand Quotes

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,… — Maxine Hong Kingston
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'… — Doris Lessing
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand… — Bertrand Russell
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose… — B.F. Skinner
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman. — Jean Toomer
It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't… — Alice Walker
I don't like soccer. I think it makes you soft. And by the way, you telling me it's the biggest whatever in the World, look,… — Adam Carolla
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I… — Jimmy Chamberlin
I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important… — Anthony Michael Hall
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who… — Frank Luntz
Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind,… — Jean Charest
Your larger goals are less clear. You understand the outcome that you would like to achieve. Yet, the path to travel is not as clear… — Jean Charest
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our… — Barack Obama
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission… — Louise Erdrich
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do… — Marlo Thomas
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.… — Peter Drucker

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