#understood

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. ↗

— Ruth Park

#i #never #passion #storyteller #understood

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly. ↗

— Todd English

#brussels #cook #how #know #misunderstood

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#father #grew #grow #grow up #hard

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #decisions #even #explain #i

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#quite #rich #woman

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#constraint #democracy #expand #expansion #freedom

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#better #economy #having #i #liked

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#cut #development #feeling #foundations #ground

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#acting #actor #age #careers #certainly