Understood Quotes

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Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological… — Stephen Covey
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth. — James MacGregor Burns
There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas… — Peter Weir
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was… — Anne Michaels
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
The whole end of speech is to be understood. — Confucius
A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case,… — Marc Ian Barasch
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos,… — Joe Perry
You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks. Sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant trucks loaded up… — Brian Regan
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. — Leo Strauss
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for… — Ralph Bakshi
For those who are understood no need to explain — Ryan Lochte
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do… — Edgar Degas
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function,"… — Carl Magnusson
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood… — Ulysses S. Grant
Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood… — Peter Abelard
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — Eric Temple Bell
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood… — Origen

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