Quotes About Understand

He did not understand—until it was too late—what one university president called the reality of tenured faculty: "A thousand points of no.

The point is we both know life and understand death—and both believe treatment in hell and everywhere else depends on money.

you could not defend what you didn't understand.

Those we understand are those we control.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are beautiful things in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them. He put the cigarette down. Smoke rose from the ashtray, first in a thin column then (with a nod to universality) in broken tendrils that swirled up to the ceiling.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

For the rest of my life, my testosterone levels will remain underneath women who were born with female anatomy. There's no advantage I could ever get by not taking estrogen. Which I'm not doing, I'm just saying that's a fact, so people should realize that. Which, I don't think most people understand.

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family's not around, when I'm on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I'm pretty boring.

A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.