#understand

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#i #i can #know #life #me

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#composer #film #good #good film #guy

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#i #me #people #smart #try

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. ↗

— Confucius

#i #i do #i remember #i see #know

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. ↗

— Tim Burton

#always #been #confused #had #i

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#been #carefree #ever #i #life

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there. ↗

— George W. Bush

#created #fact #i #income #income tax

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#government #interests #mind #more #people

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#brain #consider #faith #fragile #hope

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture