Every player has a role to play, and they must understand and embrace it.

What I have ever understood about a good letter is that it is the one to which the person can always hear with interest and engagement while the other person is just reading it out for the former one.

Nobody understands me, I’m really sensitive.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.

You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint’s atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

Among all the commodities that exist in this earthly world, Gold stands as the most precious one.

No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

I can remember no time at which a page of print was not intelligible to me and can only suppose I was born literate.

Nietzsche understands the aesthetic state of the observer and recipient on the basis of the state of the creator. Thus the effect of the artwork is nothing else than a reawakening of the creator’s state in the one who enjoys the artwork. Observation of art follows in the wake of creation. Nietzsche says (SM, 821), —the effect of artworks is arousal of the art-creating state, rapture.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

I must get used to the idea that no one will ever understand me. This fate must be common to all people who are very difficult to get along with.

When two people have a dispute, both are to blame. And therefore, a dispute will stop only when at least one person understands that he or she is guilty.