Understandable Quotes
154 quotes by 146 authors
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The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
— Noam Chomsky
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Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas.…
— Warren Buffett
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Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
— Tim Pawlenty
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I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious…
— Debbie Harry
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If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become…
— Geeta Iyengar
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The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But…
— Jim Cymbala
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In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
— Piet Mondrian
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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.
— Mark Twain
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Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional
— Carmine Gallo
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Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
— Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
— Ama Ata Aidoo
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Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost.
— Noureddine Morceli
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If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping…
— David Jeremiah
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The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
— George Bellows
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The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort…
— John Humphrys
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I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for…
— Elizabeth Streb
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Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the…
— Joseph Girzone
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Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions…
— John F. Kennedy
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The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never…
— Alistair Cooke
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