Quotes About Understand

It's easy for any of us to make assumptions about what our spouse might want, rather than work hard to understand the job to be done in our spouse's life.

I trade with you my mind.

I can't help it if I understand that everything tends to ruin. Over our heads, Skylab is eternally falling down, I can see it all, the debris raining without cessation. I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.

For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly

One of his favorite lines was that talking is overrated.

It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people.

I don't pretend to understand the American mind," spat Goldberg. "They often do things that make no sense to me.

The voice of protest is the voice of another and an ancient civilization which seems to have bred in us the instinct to enjoy and fight rather than to suffer and understand.

They do not understand that that I have to effect different transitions; have to cover the entrances and exits of several different men who alternately act their parts as Bernard.

But suppose Peter said to her, Yes, yes, but your parties—what's the sense of your parties? all she could say was (and nobody could be expected to understand): They're an offering; which sounded horribly vague. But

I do not want, John. You know I do not understand what is advertisement and what is not advertisement.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.

Because, if you haven't wrapped your head around this principle, chances are you'll never sell a story.

Only the tourists really understand Cambridge, Wittgenstein says. Cambridge is only there to be photographed: that's what they grasp. Cambridge is a collective fantasy …

Most people don't understand the psychology of asking, which is why it is so difficult to ask for (let alone receive) the things that are essential in your life.

In the Realm of the Senses for May? Or something by Peter Greenaway? You have to understand, to Lloyd, film is film, it's all about technique

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.

If you decide to defer your benefits, the odds are you will need to file for Medicare before you file for Social Security. Medicare, of course, often seems as complicated as Social Security. That's a book for another day. For now, just make sure that you file for Medicare alone and do not accidentally file for your Social Security benefit, too. Take your time. Make sure you understand ahead of time anything you sign or are asked to sign.

If we fear something, it is all the more imperative we study it thoroughly.

Sadie eyed him, hands on hips. Bird, she said, with infuriating pity, you don't understand anything, do you?

You could figure out anything about a person if you just tried hard enough.