“One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.” DifferentGirlDifferencesHurtCitiesSituationBoysPovertyBrokenComfortableUnderstoodAspectStartingExtremesWealthyMinistryHomelessFeedingBoy And GirlAspects Of LifeInner CityExtreme Poverty Author:Paula White
“When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.” TryingMindBodySpiritFocusUnderstoodConcepts Author:Paula White
“If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.” IfsNeedsMayMightTroubleUnderstoodInterpretation Author:Ry Cooder
“Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.” IfsWayShouldWellsNamesFeltKnownDadUnderstoodMy DadAccomplishmentFrankZappa Author:Dweezil Zappa
“Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made up, I realized that nevertheless, it really was crucial, crucial for how he understood himself, I believe, and certainly crucial for how anyone else ever engaged in his ideas and therefore as a starting point, how can we engage in his ideas today, but with a remove of knowing that it is a myth and being able to navigate it in that sort of level, at that level of reading him as a story.” BelieveMadeIdeasStoriesTodayAbleReadingFoundI BelieveLevelsKnowingUnderstoodStartingMythI RealizedEngagedRemoveCrucialNeverthelessStarting PointNavigateBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or twice causing a beneficial mutation to occur. Biologists have not detected any such interventions despite the data and theory they have assembled about mutation. However, I think it is a mistake to expect biological experiments to be able to detect such one-off acts of divine intervention, especially if those acts occurred in the distant past. Science isn't in that line of work.” IfsThinkingDoeIdeasAblePastLinesMistakeExampleDivineTheoryConflictUnderstoodExperimentsDespiteDataInterventionBeneficialBiologistDivine InterventionMutation Author:Elliott Sober
“I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"” PeopleKnowsTryingKindPainSuccessfulChildhoodHorrorUnderstoodNegativeDown AndBucksNancyInterfaces Author:Cynthia Nixon
“More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.” WayGovernmentUnderstoodUnionsAdvertisingPropaganda Author:Tim Wu
“Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.” DifficultEmotionPrinciplesTeachEssentialsUnderstood Author:Tim Wu
“People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.” PeopleSaidGovernmentEvilFeltUnderstoodTrustedGoogleEvil Things Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.” ThinkingWayChildrenStillsFatherPolicyPoliticianUnderstoodIndiaBlindObsessiveBlind Faith Author:Indira Gandhi
“I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.” ChildrenActivityUnderstoodVictim Author:Indira Gandhi
“Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.” PeopleWorldYearsWellsLittlesIdeasWholeFactsCertainFatherGivenReligiousKnownModernCivilizationConflictElementsUnderstoodBillionsWhole WorldEnlightenedShedFoundingGeologyFloodingAstrophysics Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life and some of the people he talks about. I had visited the place where he lived many times so I understood innately what that was.” PeopleCertainEventsUnderstoodCheatSheets Author:Andre Holland
“I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.” FeelsStillsUseTodayNaturalCasesGrewGrew UpUnderstoodUniversalFamiliarLandscapeBiblicalVocabularyLandmarks Author:Leonard Cohen
“When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.” IfsKindPersonsSaidSocialTermViewsMomDadRepublicanUnderstoodRoseWorkersUniversityMy DadMy MomBarackPostsVotingMainstreamModeratesCabinetsMichiganSocial WorkerBusiness PersonDwightDwight EisenhowerUniversity Of MichiganVoting Republican Author:Bill Ayers
“By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.” SpeakEqualUnderstoodGod Image Author:Erich Fromm
“Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as humanly possible. I think he did a fabulous job. And also I'm thrilled because the movie brings people to the book - people that wouldn't know about the book - and that's a great thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBookFeelingsJobsFilmDirectorsUnderstoodGreat ThingsFabulousWayneDixie Author:Kate DiCamillo
“When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.” MindPastFeltReadyBandSummerUnderstoodSickGet BackOctoberBack Again Author:Sharon Jones
“By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that can lead to terrible abuses - as the founders of America understood full well. It's why they created a system of separated powers - to set up a constitutional mechanism that would enhance freedom, by making sure that no one's accumulation of power could predominate over [that of] others.” WayWellsAmericaTerribleCreatingUnderstoodAbuseCourtExecutivesMechanismFoundersAccumulationJudicialProsecutorJudicial Power Author:John Bolton
“Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.” UnderstoodLongingBoundsPrimal Author:Masiela Lusha
“I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.” PeopleThinkingPainAmericaHurtClassMillionsMiddleTrumpUnderstoodMiddle Class Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think it's saying really that Donald Trump was the one person in the room who got it right, who understood America and reflected back to them what their aspirations and their fears and their frustrations were.” ThinkingPersonsAmericaRoomsTrumpUnderstoodAspirationFrustration Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country.” HumansCountryArtistChristResponsibilityIdentityCitizensUnderstoodAreasCrossesImpactImplicationsPersonal ResponsibilityChrist On The Cross Author:Sho Baraka
“Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.” IdeasDifferencesWhiteEnvironmentGreaterUnderstoodStructureSurfaceClarityVoidTransparencyWhiteness Author:Richard Meier
“America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKidsAmericaDemocracyUnderstoodDirectRepublicRepresentativesDirect Democracy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who deserved sympathy, but who should never be allowed to set the terms of political debate.” PeopleShouldPoliticalSidesTermPovertyEffectsCryIgnoranceUnderstoodEducationalDebateSide EffectsPolitical Debates Author:Fraser Nelson
“Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.” RealitySocialMediaTelevisionTrumpUnderstoodSocial MediaUnderratedReality Television Author:Van Jones
“Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.” PeopleMediaTrumpUnderstoodRanDynamicsNew Media Author:Van Jones
“Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.” PersonsPlayKidsUnderstoodMy FamilyDishesFamily Life Author:Patti Smith
“There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.” TryingLittlesDreamFilmMovingBitsSceneLittle BitUnderstoodLayersEditing Author:Steven Sebring
“What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example, that they argue against physician-assisted suicide not just by speculating about God's wrath or the afterlife, but by talking about what they see as assisted suicide's potential injustices.” PeopleGivingKindImportantReasonTalkingExampleParticularUnderstoodSuicideInjusticeArguingDoctrineAfterlifePhysiciansWrathComprehensiveWhat's ImportantAssisted SuicidePhysician Assisted Suicide Author:John Rawls
“I understood because of his personality. [Donald Trump] is different. And for years the presidency has been like a smooth ride and nothing really dramatic has happened. But with him every day is full of energy. Things are going the happen. And today when I met him, it was like meeting a different person.” YearsPersonsHas BeensDifferentHappensTodayEnergyHappenedPersonalityTrumpMetsUnderstoodMeetingsDramaticSmoothPresidency Author:Jim Brown
“I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.” FeelsShouldSportsEatingUnderstoodInstinctLazyFast FoodSlowingEating Fast Food Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.” HumansFictionDoubtFailingConditionsUnderstoodNo DoubtHuman ConditionNever Quit Author:Richard Dawkins
“I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.” PeopleKnowsKnow HowUnderstood Author:Quentin Crisp
“[Trust Me] was TNT, and they were really supportive of the show, but in the end they just didn't feel it was their audience. I never really understood why we didn't get a longer run at it, because it was Griffin Dunne and Monica Potter. Just a really strong cast.” FeelsEndsShowsRunningStrongAudienceUnderstoodCastsSupportiveTrust MePottersMonica Author:Eric McCormack
“We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.” WellsMeanLongHas BeensRealStatesActorsStuffInfluenceLong TimeUnderstoodConcernThreatAdversariesHacksCyber Author:Susan Rice
“I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there was no depth to him, no preparation, that he was an agitator breathing a lot of fire and with an absolute lack of ideas.” FirstsIdeasMomentsKnownTakenFireUnderstoodAbsolutesDepthPreparationBreathing Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand me.” PeopleThinkingWholeGoalUnderstoodUnderstand Me Author:Jen Kirkman
“I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveUsedJoyGoes OnUnderstoodConceptsStatementsDepressing Author:Byron Katie
“It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.” ChildrenFeltNeededUnderstoodRememberedOversight Author:Megan Chance
“For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.” AbleUnderstoodEmpowering Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.” AmericaPresidentTrumpUnderstoodAnimated Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.” HumansMatterLevelsClearSpecialParticularSeriousLimitsUnderstoodClaimsAffairObligationSignificanceCompetenceGeneral Public Author:Noam Chomsky
“I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.” ThinkingWorldPresidentSuccessfulGoes OnTrumpMassUnderstoodDollarsBillionsBarackFishingVotersPresident ObamaPresident Barack ObamaExpeditionsAmerican Voters Author:Jason Chaffetz
“The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.” BigsGovernmentHurtCompanyPrinciplesUnderstood Author:Edward Snowden
“The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.” IdeasSpaceViolenceSpeechUnderstoodJewDebateTopicsUnspeakableComplicityAllegations Author:Judith Butler
“I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.” MeanWarLastsDemocracyMilitaryInformationExampleUnderstoodPhotographerObligationJournalismSpiteActivistSpheresCensorshipStrainPraiseworthyInvestigative Journalism Author:Judith Butler
“I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.” PeopleWayNeedsTryingSometimesRealityLanguageSocialNaturalUnderstoodFundamentalsEndureWho We AreDimensionsInnateAssertionInferiorityEmbodiment Author:Judith Butler