Understood Quotes

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

I'm not driven by being understood.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.