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“I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.”

Understood Jazz

Author:Van Morrison

“I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.”

Ifs Book Light Reading Hours Simple Morning Air Pure Mountain Understood Reading Books

Author:Max Muller

“Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.”

Firsts Soul Light Poor Sun Understood First Time Empty My Soul Lacking Bud Germs

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.”

Firsts Understood First Time Repeats Trapped Congratulations

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.”

Ifs Knows Enough Motivational Night Understood Anticipation Fear Of Failure

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.”

Want Looks Government Today Individual Left Issues Groups Understood American Politics Coalitions Left Alone Politics Today Groups And Individuals

Author:Grover Norquist

“I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.”

Use Father Wise Heard Waste Understood Concepts

Author:Ted Nugent

“Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.”

Thinking Use Creativity Understood

Author:Martha Beck

“At least I had that, one guy understood me.”

Artist Guy Understood Aquarius

Author:Yoko Ono

“Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.”

Feelings Artist Skills Understood Communicate

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.”

Understood England

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”

Life May Doe Art Process Understanding Deals Health Understood Medicine Pills Plasters Process Of Life

Author:Paracelsus

“I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.”

Feelings Wanted Married Understood

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.”

Thinking Rights Happened Economic Republican Understood African American Voting Citizenship Impatient Emancipation Great Depression Right To Vote

Author:Rand Paul

“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”

Writing Ends Speak Language Speech Understood English Language Few Words Ostentation Written Language Writing Words Language Words Plain Language Words You Speak

Book:Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.”

Ifs Ideas Dies Understood Ill Mood Things To Do Swim Dolphins

Author:Karl Pilkington

“I cannot be understood in three minutes.”

Three Minutes Understood

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

Problem Theory Understood Solve Libertarian

Author:Karl Popper

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

Love Writing Book Speak Grows Growth Heard Communication Self Improvement Understood

Book:The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life

Source: The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life

“Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.”

Wells Might Generations Amount Understood Eras Reasonable Funeral Sibling Victorian Victorian Era Previous Generations

Author:Terry Pratchett

“You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.”

Want Messages Understood Loud Sophisticated

Author:Miuccia Prada

“To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.”

Humanity Evil Left Term Views Economic Materials Understood Inequality Economic Inequality

Author:Dennis Prager

“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove. The Guermantes way

“I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.”

World Country Political Existence Principles Understood Foundation Unions West Maps Humanist Soviet Soviet Union Ideological

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.”

“People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.”

People Beautiful Creative Car Understood Collections Unnecessary

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'”

Ifs Knows Writing Heart Courses Process Imagination Fiction Creative Imagine One Thing Creating Understood Mysterious Stakes Creative Writing

Author:Tom Robbins

“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”

Ifs Firsts Ends States Modern Understood Constant Modernism Postmodernism Postmodern

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.”

Needs Writing Behinds Share Communication Understood Communicate Driven Educated

Author:Leo Rosten

“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”

“If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.”

People Ifs Inspirational Wells Enough Funny Perspective Approach Understood Presidential Sail Sailing

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.”

World War Sides Leader Understood Destruction Aim Salvation Defeat Prosperity War Of The Worlds Fascism Twins Great Leader Alliances Franklin Second World War

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.”

Way Believe Two I Believe Understood Tasks

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.”

Stills Desire Literature Understood Educated Classic Desire To Learn

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.”

Process Understood Careful Physics Experiments Observation Preparation Analysis Isolated Entity Particles Measurement Interconnection Subatomic Particles

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.”

Age Next Social Becoming Understood Evidence Embrace Phones Posts Privacy Email Invasion Becoming More Phone Calls Unspeakable Texting Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Will Self

“You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.”

Knows Feelings Motivational Winning Race Understood Drivers Racing Helmet Formula One Motor Racing Car Racing Auto Racing Racing Driver Formula 1 Funny Car Racing

Author:Ayrton Senna

“Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?”

Art Country Matter Nations Support Pride Survival Understood Art Is Shame France Ireland Sweden Austria National Pride

Author:Theodore Bikel

“It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.”

Values Elements Understood Various Contact Comparison Relative Worthlessness Relative Value

Author:Hu Shih

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.”

Way Needs Persons Whole Reality Understanding Right Now Anxiety Understood Abundance Boss Need You Apprentice Completeness

Author:Beverly Sills

“Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.”

World Made Wanted Teacher Understood Concerts Pianist Bach's Music

Author:Nina Simone

“I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.”

Men Wells Certain Animal Acceptance Understood Males Realising Predatory

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.”

Important Voice Understood Tools

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.”

Used Understood

Author:Bjork

“I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.”

Writing Morning Pieces Paper Understood Machines Get Up Typewriters Bedtime

Author:Wole Soyinka

“No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.”

Values Felt Levels Fans Understood Core Scales Popularity 80s Bumps

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”

Literature Numbers Attention Marriage Quiet Understood Introvert Vague Alarms Courtship Vagueness

Author:Laurence Sterne

“There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

Made Perfect Company Solitude Quiet Understood Introvert Fellowship

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.”

Stories Fiction Fans Understood Science Fiction Conception

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”

Thinking Felt Music Havens Understood Bars Inspirational Music Sound Of Music Music Is My Life Musical Life

Author:Igor Stravinsky