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Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.
- Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.
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I don't just want to show how somebody might be wrong;I want to know why people believe the things they believe in the first place. I want to understand the mindset that would lead somebody toward the alt-right.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing I learned in my philosophy training - if you're writing a paper on Aristotle, you have to first show that you understand him. Then you can make your counterargument.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
- Relationship
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The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.
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- Nov 07, 2020