Understood Quotes - Page 19

• 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.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Kindness, Men, Thinking

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• A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Art, Few Words

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• Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

  James Montgomery

  Should Have, Hymns, Unity

  "The Christian Psalmist; Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an Introductory Essay". Book by James Montgomery, 1825.

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• The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

  Richard Cecil

  Bible, Old And New, Schemes

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.110

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• The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what isn't understood about Catholicism in this Protestant culture. It means that your conscience is formed by the Church, but in the end you're responsible for your own activities.

  Francis George

  Mother, Mean, Voice

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• 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.

  John Lasseter

  Art, Thinking, Good Movie

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Josh Peck

  Cat, Boys, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Reflection, Men, People

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• 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.

  Ruby Bentall

  School, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Writing, Interviews, Warhol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Party, Responsibility, Grandmother

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sex, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

  Freeman Dyson

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

  "Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

  Alan Bennett

  Broadway, Film, Made

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

  Roy H. Williams

  Simple, Risk, Able

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.10, BookBaby

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• That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Communication, Mean, Metaphysical

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.14, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

  Paulo Freire

  Assuming, Obvious, Teach

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.43, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

  Alan Watts

  Beach, Moving, Book

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.54, Souvenir Press

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• It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Sides, Doctrine

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

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• Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Pseudoscience, Would Be

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

  Jane Fonda

  Sex, Thinking, Knees

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• I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

  Thomas Friedman

  War, Today, Cold

  Thomas L. Friedman (2000). “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization”, p.14, Macmillan

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• The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Military, Roles, Controlled

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.80, Penguin

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• The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Character, Two, Evil

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