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The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
John Lasseter
Good
You
Doing The Right Thing
Sometimes
Greed
Believe
Other
Right Thing
Bad
Bad Guys
Guys
Call
Understand
Greatest
Always
Coming
Doing
Where
The Right Thing
Center
Reasons
Right
Thing
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.
Judith Butler
Gender
Think
Minds
Heterosexuality
Those
Sexuality
Kinds
Able
Absolutely
Masculinity
Between
Operations
Understand
How
Femininity
Links
Forged
Want
Certain
Separate
Who
Homosexuality
I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
Kelly Osbourne
Life
Heart
Ugly
Others
Ruined
Press
Broke
Entire
Entire Life
Almost
Self-Esteem
Judged
Territory
Understand
Being
Being Judged
Fat
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.
Lisa Kleypas
Love
You
Love Is
Try
Control
Situation
Unknown
Hoping
Someone
Variables
Leap
Understand
Cliff
Always
Still
Off
Jumping
Many
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes
Politics
Democracy
Business
Few
Tolerance
Neither
Takes
Democratic
Democratic Process
Understand
Being
Process
Capable
Depth
Businessmen
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Malcolm Gladwell
Fear
Valuable
Lose
Older
Way
Say
Correct
More
Only
Understand
Get
Being
Your
Things
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
Margaret Thatcher
War
Alone
People
Liberty
Made
Cold
Cold War
Failed
Overcame
Understand
How
Were
Up
Going
Just
Forgotten
Influential
Against
Gains
Capable
Many
Enlarging
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
Father
King
Incompetence
Dilemma
Paradox
Neither
Abdicate
Would
See
Delegate
Only
Could
Sons
Understand
His
Duties
Either
Realizing
You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
Mary Oliver
Spiritual
You
World
Able
About
Accept
Understand
Truly
Order
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
Max Lucado
Life
Death
God
Great
Courage
Great Part
Part
Understand
His
End
Up
Transition
Us
Really
Next
Next Life
Help
Receiving
We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.
Michelle Obama
Women
Think
More
Instinctively
Know
Understand
Than
Just
Even
One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.
Min Jin Lee
Life
You
Together
Age
Getting Older
Binary
Young
Nice
Older
Think
Everything
Exactly
About
Feel
Come
Understand
How
Integrate
Getting
Aspects
Your
Multiple
Nice Things
Things
Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.
Molly Tarlov
Love
Alone
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Own
Everybody
See
Struggles
Know
Understand
Surround
Just
Love You
Regardless
Whether
Really
Who
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho
Humble
Be Humble
Enough
Something
Mystery
Understand
Stop
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.
Ravi Zacharias
Me
You
Yourself
Wonderful
Christ
Birth
Cross
Self
He
Know
Because
Understand
Enables
How
Real
Die
Speaks
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Brings
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
Steve Jobs
People
Better
Will
Some People
Think
Thoroughly
Some
Cases
Something
Invented
Inventor
Study
Until
Understand
Been
Very
Than
Get
Anymore
Interesting
Japan
Original
Reinvent
Things
Copies
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.
Sue Perkins
Best
Science
Fear
Try
Tribal
Hatred
Become
Worst
Strongest
Gym
Physicality
Come
Understand
Fittest
Improvement
Prejudice
Ignorant
Ignore
Aging
Based
Resistance
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry Pratchett
Best
Fruit
Problem
Language
Important
Think
Universe
Telling
Perhaps
Most
Another
Understand
Trying
Via
The Most Important
Workings
Fundamental
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins
Time
You
People
Achieve
Will
Year
Once
True
Underestimate
Most
Mastered
Overestimate
Understand
How
Accomplish
Decade
I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.
Twiggy
You
People
Getting Older
Nothing
Older
Embrace
About
Well
Understand
Getting
Depressed
Might
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin
Struggle
Evil
Despair
Typical
Way
Proletariat
Those
Out
See
Classes
Category
Industrial
Understand
Does
Causes
Modern
Incapable
Who
Belong
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. Edwards Deming
You
Man
Better
Problems
Will
Increase
Way
Machine
Machinery
Run
Give
Maintenance
New
Operation
Sure
Sure Way
Understand
How
Efficient
Just
Productivity
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay
Life
God
Better
Cause
Father
Will
Believe
Needless
Never
Longer
Also
Understand
His
Hand
Child
Any
May
Resent
Tear
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
Wynton Marsalis
Music
Art
Time
Achievement
Better
Value
Past
Jazz
Our
Potential
Remind
Feel
Understand
Learns
Accessible
Line
Ultimate
Fit
Up
Selves
America
Listen
Human
Anybody
Where
Sanctified
Us
Jazz Music
Who
Connect
Earlier
Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
Zig Ziglar
Life
Saying
Good
You
Yourself
Better
Will
Live
Good Life
Takes
Make
Understand
Truly
Than
Just
Your
Apply
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
Freedom
Justice
Struggle
Women
Men
Important
Crimes
Our
Support
Cry
Learn
Understand
Stop
Want
Against
Us
Should
Who
Violence
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