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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.


David Herbert Donald


#american #american president #any #better #convinced

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.


Ian Hamilton Finlay


#could #course #i #liked #me

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.


Carlton Fisk


#carried #fair #feet #foul #go

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.


Janet Frame


#could #deciding #divisions #easy #fashionable

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.


Criss Jami


#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.


Elliott Gould


#greatest #misunderstood

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .


Gordon Gould


#communicated #different #entirely #had #history

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.


Remy de Gourmont


#bore #divined #enough #just #pleasing

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.


George Gurdjieff


#beginning #help #him #knowledge #knows

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.


John Hench


#because #cynical #great #great respect #had