“I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.” RealSchoolValuesClassIssuesMiddleFameUnderstoodMiddle ClassLots Of MoneyReal ValueMiddle Class Family Author:Suresh Raina
“I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.” BookWantedSchoolUnderstandingLevelsSecretStudyUnderstoodComplexesDeeperPhysicsQuantumEnergeticQuantum PhysicsDeeper Understanding Book:The Secret Source: The Secret
“I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .” StillsReasonSchoolUnderstoodHatedSpellsDisabilityDyslexiaLearning Disability Author:Loretta Young
“The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.” HumansSchoolFoundCausesUnderstandingMy OwnRightsTaughtUnderstoodSlaverySlaveHuman RightsCivil RightsInvestigationAnti Slavery Author:Angelina Grimke
“I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.” KnowsWantHas BeensHardSchoolTogetherWishStuffKnow HowGoneUnderstoodCome UpDyslexia Author:Hank Williams III
“I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.” AbleSchoolCareersFantasyTeamCollegeUnderstoodHigh SchoolTrainChanging My LifeRedos Author:Chael Sonnen
“I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.” AgeSchoolChristianHeardGroupsYouthMinesUnderstoodHigh SchoolRaisedAcceptedInvited Author:Francis Chan
“I think my parents were worried when I said I wanted to be an actress, but they also understood what that feeling is like. Maybe if I had shone at anything at school they would have encouraged me to try that, but it has been the only thing I have ever wanted to do.” IfsThinkingTryingHas BeensSaidFeelingsWantedSchoolParentUnderstoodActressesWorried Author:Ruby Bentall
“You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.” KnowsFirstsSchoolSpeakParentGrowing UpKnowingTeacherGrowingTeachingUnderstoodSpeak English Author:Emily Rios
“There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.” WayYearsKindDifferentSchoolLawValuesPrinciplesUnderstoodCodeDifferent WaysIslamicMultipleCompetingConstructsCivicsContinuumShariaFamily Law Author:Mark Durie
“When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.” ProblemAgeSchoolSubjectsUnderstoodMy FavoriteMathEnjoyedCodeProblem SolvingAlgebraCalculusFavorite Subject Author:Chris Bosh
“I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.” YearsPlaySchoolThreeOne DayDegreesUnderstoodBaseballThree Years Author:Ryan Howard
“I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.” PeopleSchoolLawDifferencesUnderstoodMaking A DifferenceLaw School Author:Maya Harris
“I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason - and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.” IfsHas BeensReasonWantedSchoolChoicesFatherHouseFeltSafeUnderstoodDiedTeenagerFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Rula Jebreal
“The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.” SchoolLawValuesCultureNationsUnderstoodConceptsInstitutionsDialogueFoundersLaw SchoolFederalistScholarly Author:Ronald Reagan
“He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.” WellsUseCareAbleSchoolFatherDealsPiecesPlayerModernTheoryOughtKingsUnderstoodAdvantageWeakTake CareChessSquares Author:Bobby Fischer
“I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.” YearsWellsSchoolArtistPowerfulCreatingUnderstoodYears AgoEightBrandsNarrativeEmpoweringPlatformsExplainingLecturesImplicationsHarvardOxfordStanfordBusiness School Author:MC Hammer
“I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.” KnowsWorldSchoolSufferingLeftCausesUnderstoodDeterminedGraduatesSave The WorldAdmittingGraduate School Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we have people in the letters and science department that understand it quite well and the students go there if they want to understand what this term that is being bandied about is all about, but I've never understood it.” PeopleIfsWantWellsMeanArtSchoolTermTeachStudentsUnderstoodLettersNotionPostsDepartmentModernismArt SchoolPost Modernism Author:Lawrence Jordan
“By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that when he or she came out of school in 1986, that it was different. How would they know? We've got to admit that.” KnowsWayDifferentSchoolJobsChangedDirectorsUnderstoodNot Sure Author:Ken Moelis
“I remember it made me feel better because so many of my friends at school. Were doing that stuff and doing that stuff on sleep overs. But I just didn't feel ready. It wasn't like I had any judgment of it being two women. It would have scared me as much if not more. I was like a three month period in which all the words sleep over was code for was "let's get together and touch each other's vaginas." and I was. Haunted. And I remember going home and feeling like I couldn't tell my mother even though she would've understood and probably laughed.” IfsFeelsMadeTwoFeelingsHomeSchoolTogetherRememberMotherThreeStuffSleepReadyMonthsPeriodsJudgmentUnderstoodMy FriendsScaredCodeLaughedFeel BetterGet TogetherThree MonthsGoing Home Author:Lena Dunham
“It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.” KindIdeasSchoolCultureGirlCan DoBoysFeminismTaughtUnderstoodPopsPop Culture Author:June Diane Raphael
“I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsSaidIdeasEyeSchoolArtistDifferencesWalksBrainWatchesPerspectiveUnderstoodHigh SchoolIslandsReportsPocketsBedroomPosseBelgiansMagrittePocket WatchesSchool Reports Author:Sloane Crosley
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.” WayWellsHas BeensWarHardUseHomeCareAgeSchoolJobsChoicesEnergyLostNationsEconomyViolenceFailingPlanetsUnderstoodEvidenceConsequenceHatredCrisisGreedHealth CareEach DayReachingCollectivesMidstShedNew AgeOur PlanetAdversariesIrresponsibility Author:Barack Obama
“I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once agian: My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more. No doubt she told Auntie Lin I was going back to school to get a doctorate.” TryingMeanSaidSchoolMotherUnderstandingOpinionDoubtHeardListeningUnderstoodNo DoubtTonightReally MeanUnspokenDoctoratesAuntieGoing Back To SchoolRespect Her Author:Amy Tan
“Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.” LooksSchoolGirlStarsSeaSonUnderstoodBottomFishesCuriousSwearMarineRumorAnnabeth ChaseSirensPoseidon Author:Rick Riordan
“The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.” PeopleWorldYearsBelieveMatterHardRealitySchoolNextGamesLevelsFourCollegeUnderstoodHigh SchoolVideoLike MeTemporaryFour YearsNext LevelAlternate Realities Book:The Six Rules of Maybe Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
“Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter anthem echoed in his head-and though he'd always like the song okay, he'd never truly understood what it meant. Kind of wished that were still the case. Life goes on...long after the thrill of living is gone.” KindLongStillsSchoolSongCasesGoneGoes OnUnderstoodOkayPrisonBottomBootsThrillStairsLightersOld SchoolLife Goes OnAnthemMosaics Book:Lover Mine: Number 8 in series Source: Lover Mine: Number 8 in series
“She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her.” WorldHardFeelingsSchoolRememberUnderstoodForgottenLunchNot Alone Author:Stephenie Meyer