“I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingYearsLooksNextWaitingCareersSawsProjectsUnderstoodTypecasting Author:Chris Colfer
“I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsBeliefSocialMoralityUnderstoodDeclineRight WayElixir Author:Stephen Chbosky
“I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"” ThinkingSaidHumorFunnyAnswersCuttingLike YouUnderstoodRaisedDamnRestaurantsEggsChickensSandwichesWaitressBuns Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.” ThinkingMindHumansIdeasJobsComputerUnderstoodMarketingApplesHuman MindBicycleScams Author:Alex Gibney
“Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.” PeopleThinkingWayMindHumansIdeasJobsCertainStudyDesignComfortableComputerUnderstoodMachinesMarketingApplesFriendlyHuman MindUsersBicycleInteractiveScamsZeitgeistUser Friendly Author:Alex Gibney
“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."” PeopleThinkingFeelsSometimesArtistHateFeltEnjoyPaintingUnderstoodAbstractWowCriedAbstract Painting Author:Jose Parla
“I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.” IfsThinkingMadeUnderstoodClaimsMistakenCosmology Author:George Coyne
“I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.” ThinkingKnowsIssuesUnderstoodBother Author:Carrie Fisher
“I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"” IfsThinkingWantFeelsIdeasMightSidesAirMinutesPleaseDirectorsUnderstoodBoringSmellIntimidatingHurtful Author:Kenneth Branagh
“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.” IfsThinkingLittlesAgeEvilChristChurchMoralConditionsSolutionsUnderstoodAddMissionsRadicalAdamFadingMoral Strength Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
“I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.” IfsThinkingMenWayWholeFeelingsEarthKindnessDivineSourceUnderstoodPeace On EarthKinship Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.” ThinkingWorldArtWantedFilmFormFeltWatchesAudienceWonderfulComputerUnderstoodStudiosMediumsAround The WorldCinemaEntertainingAnimationGood MovieReally Good MovieComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.” ThinkingKnowsMenYearsDifficultWhiteBoysUnderstoodCatHip HopScreensHipsHopsMeant To BeBe A ManAngst Author:Josh Peck
“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 see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.” PeopleThinkingValuesNiceGenerationsSpecialUnderstoodOutstandingRespectfulYounger GenerationWarhol Author:Ai Weiwei
“I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.” ThinkingDifferentWarLightWishGoneUnderstoodVietnam Author:Oliver Stone
“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.” ThinkingImportantYoungParentPartyResponsibilityAwarenessTvsGrewMembersGrew UpConsciousUnderstoodAdultsElectionDemocraticRaisedYoung AdultActiveDebateGrandmotherAssociationHouseholdSupporterMy GrandmotherDemocratic PartyTenants Author:Scarlett Johansson
“It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.” ThinkingFeelsUseLanguageSexDifficultSpaceWalksHealingBalanceCreatingUnderstoodDeeperUndertakings Author:Ani DiFranco
“I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.” IfsThinkingSexWorshipUnderstoodKneesCondomSex Education Author:Jane Fonda
“The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.” ThinkingWayUnderstoodDifficultyManageSociology Book:Language and Symbolic Power Source: Language and Symbolic Power
“I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.” ThinkingHandsMightProductsUnderstoodIslamInstanceGlobalizationHand In HandTribalismGlobalism Author:Franklin Foer
“In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and observed a moment: One of the cleaners stopped, puzzled, in front of the Picassos. I think that this is an image that can be universally understood, but with a grain of salt. I never chose this image in edits before because it seemed to me that it felt posed-the composition was a little too perfect. But, believe me, it was a lucky moment.” ThinkingBelieveLittlesArtMomentsFeltPerfectFrontsLuckyUnderstoodOpeningPreparationFeaturesMuseumsSaltGrainBelieve In MeCompositionEditsCleanersExhibitionsPuzzledGrain Of Salt Author:Micha Bar-Am
“Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsSoulReasonProblemRunningSpiritualTermJusticeIssuesEconomicUnderstoodSacredDepthBudgetsCyclesMaterialismOur WorldTranscendenceSearch For MeaningEconomic ProblemsJustice Equality Author:Robert Wuthnow
“The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.” IfsThinkingShouldHumansMeanRealMomentsAgeEarthPastSpiritPassionNationsNaturalCommonDestinyDrawsUnderstoodConcernTasksPressureUnityPassionatePhrasesHumankindParts Of LifeRight MomentReal Human Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.” ThinkingLooksKindMadeDoneKidsSeeingTaughtUnderstoodCamerasHorribleAestheticSnapshots Author:Jeff Vespa
“I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.” ThinkingHas BeensValuesJusticeCareersGrowing UpIssuesGrowingUnderstoodEmbraceNotion Author:Maya Harris
“I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to say, "Leave her on the hillside to die. She's only a girl baby." I think they said it somewhat as a joke, maybe not, but it made me understand that being born female in this world was very different from being born male.” ThinkingWorldFirstsMadeSaidDifferentUsedDiesGirlBornThis WorldBabyJokesUnderstoodFemaleMalesRestaurantsCriedThey SaidWaiter Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.” ThinkingDoeWholeUnderstandingElementsUnderstoodIncreaseExpandingReducingSystems Thinking Author:Russell L. Ackoff
“We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” ThinkingFeelsWritingLittlesSometimesSpeakGrowsBitsHeardMetsLittle BitExpectationsUnderstoodSellsExpectedComparisonPale Author:Lawrence Clark Powell
“I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.” ThinkingLevelsEmotionalUnderstoodCellular Author:Rebecca Hall
“I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is about two people desperately looking for love. To be loved. And who were probably capable of it. And they just found it with someone of the same sex.that does not dismiss the fact that it is about, really, primarily, the first kind of very profound gay love story. Hopefully it can create an equality of an idea: that is, it's possible that you can find love anywhere.” PeopleThinkingFirstsKindDoeTwoIdeasFactsStoriesFoundSexGayMountainCapableUnderstoodProfoundLove StoryHopefullyFinding LoveLooking For LoveBrokeback MountainGay Love Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPersonsIdeasEnoughCharacterFeelingsBigsActorsSpaceSkillsHappeningsUnderstoodTechniqueShootingConfused Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.” PeopleThinkingSleepUnderstoodLackingJudgmental Author:Gemma Arterton
“This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveMadeSpiritualityI BelieveFeltSoundHellFiveFourTreeFlowerUnderstoodYears AgoGrassDiscussionFive YearsBelieve In GodHawaiiCheesy Author:Natalie Maines
“When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.” PeopleThinkingWritingSongCareersUnderstood Author:Corey Smith
“My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.” ThinkingMenKindMotherFatherWifeUnderstoodMy FriendsToughAll ThingsStrongerExtraordinarySexyMy WifeWitResolveSmarterDiminishFunny WomenStepfathers Author:Joss Whedon
“But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.” ThinkingMenHumansBodyEarthFormCasesRocksPlanetsUnderstoodIntelligentIncludingAbsurdConclusionCellsSymptomsGalaxyHuman BodySkeletonsSolar SystemHarding Author:Alan Watts
“I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems precarious in the United States." She introduced me to the term "John Henryism." And then I went back and researched it and understood that, woah, this thing I am thinking about is actually a condition that's named.” ThinkingWaySaidStatesSeemsBlackTermUnitedUnited StatesConditionsPoetUnderstoodYalePrecarious Author:Claudia Rankine
“There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.” ThinkingWayPoliticalLevelsTeacherTeachingUnderstoodEverydayAverageTension Author:Dana Goldstein
“I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingLooksMadeBookDifferentEnoughWholeWould BeDecisionNeededConsciousUnderstoodInstinctGladGutsInvestigatingBlindersWhole PictureDifferent BooksPleasing People Author:Melissa Febos
“I think is interesting is that term is so pejorative or understood to be so pejorative and there`s a real difference between how Republicans, it seems to me, think of that and how Democrats do. I don`t think Democrats feel as negatively about the Democratic Party establishment as Republicans do feel about their party`s establishment.” ThinkingFeelsRealSeemsTermDifferencesInterestingPartyRepublicanUnderstoodDemocraticDemocratEstablishmentDemocratic Party Author:Chris Hayes
“You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."” PeopleThinkingWantGovernmentHappensIndividualDecisionMoralExampleUnderstoodArmyYeahOver YouMoral Decisions Author:Joel Stein
“There's often times a big difference between what you actually thought/felt in a situation and what you think you thought/felt. You have to do a lot of work to make your thoughts/feelings possible to be understood by other people. It's very draining, though also cathartic.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsBigsFeltDifferencesSituationUnderstoodDrainingCathartic Author:Marie Calloway
“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.” ThinkingMayHas BeensMediaTelevisionCommunicationUnderstoodPressesErrorsTragicInabilityRapport Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.” ThinkingDifferentProblemPlansSonUnderstoodMy SonOrganize Author:Donald Sutherland
“My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.” ThinkingDifferentFactsKidsSidesPrideConsciousUnderstoodMy FamilyBrownShadeUnclesBoth SidesCousinAuntCapes Author:Aeriel Miranda
“I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.” ThinkingWorldEvilHouseMoneyNumbersThis WorldSixUnderstoodGreedSakePlanes Author:Kevin Bacon
“I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.” ThinkingWorldRealityUnderstoodArchitectureConstruction Author:Jimenez Lai
“When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.” ThinkingWorldWayNeedsBelieveFactsProblemDealsHeardUnderstoodConceptsAcknowledgeDiminishPluralismMalaysiaPluralism Is Author:Tariq Ramadan
“The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenLosesUnderstoodWeightPartnersAwfulExpectingSudden Death Author:Carolyn Hax