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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.

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand...

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

Quotes by Afrojack

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

Know Quotes

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Quotes by Afrika Bambaataa

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

Quotes by Adrienne Bailon

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

I don't really understand why we are paid less than the male actors, because we put equal efforts, and recent past has shown that actresses can deliver a hit film. We deserve better pay, equal to what actors get.

Quotes by Aditi Rao Hydari

My formative years were not spent in Hyderabad, so I can only understand Telugu, but I love the culture.

Quotes by Aditi Rao Hydari

Like Quotes

One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.

Quotes by Adena Friedman

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Quotes by Adan Canto

I love the Irsay family, but I understand this is a business.

Quotes by Adam Vinatieri

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

Quotes by Adam Scott

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's...

Quotes by Adam Pally

Me Quotes

We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

Quotes by Adam Driver

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

Quotes by Adam Driver

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

Quotes by Ace Young

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless...

Abraham Lincoln

More Quotes

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

Frequently Asked Questions

What different situations call for 'understanding' in these quotes?
They cover understanding the implications of your own decisions, a film team understanding a shared blueprint, a puzzling gap in information, and leaders shaped by understanding what's possible for students in high-needs classrooms.
Is there a quote about not fully understanding the consequences of your choices?
Yes. One quote describes the idea of "being young enough to not really understand the implications of your decisions," as a theme behind a record. For related reflections, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote about a film team needing shared understanding?
Yes - one quote says that without "a solid blueprint that the entire team can get behind and understand," a film production can get lost. Browse More quotes for related thoughts on teamwork.
Is there a quote expressing confusion about restricted information?
Yes. One quote says, "I cannot understand why it is generally held," referring to information available to "privileged persons" and comparing the speaker's reasoning to that of physicists. For more, see Know quotes.
Is there a quote about understanding what's possible for students?
Yes - one quote says effective leaders are shaped by teaching successfully in high-needs classrooms, and that "Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children" to succeed. For more first-person insights, see Me quotes.

There's also a teaching angle, where experience in demanding classrooms shapes what a leader comes to understand about their students. Browse more in More Quotes or Like Quotes.