Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang more compellingly. No one understood more about stage spectacles or music videos. He was an innovator. His reach was global.
I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.
There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive negotiator: being understood is actually more important to them than actually making the deal.
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.