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Quotes About Understand

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.
~ Robert Zemeckis
There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.
~ Jeff Buckley
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.
~ John Mackey
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.
~ Nouriel Roubini
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
~ Roland Allen
People who are digital native, they want to have real-time performance feedback. They want to understand where they are, what might happen, what their future is. And they want to understand that quickly in a very direct conversation.
~ Pierre Nanterme
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
~ Hugh Grant
In sum, the Bible itself does not lay out the full biblicist program or anything like it. The Bible contains passages showing, for example, a reader of scripture unable to understand what it teaches unless someone guides him (Acts 8:30–31).
~ Christian Smith
Ner'zhul... Gul'dan. Two of the darkest names ever to sully the history of my people. And yet, Drek'thar tells me that once Ner'zhul was admired, even beloved, and truly cared for the people whos spiritual leader he was. It is hard to reconcile those words with what Ner'zhul has become, but I try. I try because I want to understand. And yet, try as I might... I do not.
~ Christie Golden
The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You do what you think you need to, but pain travels pretty well.
~ Christopher Moore
From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.
~ Christopher Paolini
Mikoyan contended that the U.S. decision to halt denazification in Germany was of great political importance at the time, and in fact remains difficult for many Russians to understand or accept to this day.1
~ Christopher Simpson
That's a tough pill to swallow because we're not children or dependents; we're adults. To support an idea, we need to understand why the decision was made.
~ Travis Bradberry
she was the kindest of souls; if she had ever done harm to any human being it was because the social system was too complicated for her to understand the consequences of her actions.
~ Upton Sinclair
Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again. What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--The love of a damned soul. a
~ Victor Hugo
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
~ Victor Hugo
Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again. What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
~ Victor Hugo
She had hunted animals. She had been hunted by animals. But the thought of humans hunting humans—it was difficult for her to understand, and it made her feel ill.
~ Kristin Harmel
can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?
~ Kristin Harmel
Some old spacers stay away from wrecks. These old-timers believe the wrecks are haunted—not by the dead crew, but by old science, the kind that could kill us because we don't understand it.
~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
~ Kurt Lewin
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
~ Kurt Lewin
Wer die Enge seiner Heimat begreifen will, der reise. Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.
~ Kurt Tucholsky