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Quotes About Understand

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.
~ Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
~ Henry Ford
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
~ James Surowiecki
Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.
~ Gail Simmons
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
~ Ben Kingsley
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
~ Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
~ Stokely Carmichael
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.
~ Peter Kropotkin
I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.
~ Donald Trump
The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
~ Roy H. Williams
People fear what they don't understand: Change, Death, 4th grade math word problems. . .
~ Unknown
The more you fail, the more you understand what caused the failure, and you can make the next piece great.
~ Marina Abramovic
They couldn't understand that the left and right were never a threat anyway; that the worst thing is a sanitized society ruled by the middle class. The working class and the real upper class have a lot in common. They know where they're from, they like a drink, have a sense of humour. It's the middle you need to look out for.
~ Mark E. Smith
A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.
~ Mark Frost
Frank nodded at him.
~ Unknown
1. Say to the person, "And the reason it's so important to fix this or make this better now is ______________." This fill-in-the-blanks technique requires the person to think of an answer, which opens the door to the reasoning (human) parts of the brain.
~ Mark Goulston
Part of knowing your product is knowing all the reasons someone might not want to buy it. Anticipate the reasons. State them clearly in your mind, spell them out on paper if necessary—and have an answer ready for each of them.
~ Unknown
If you have to translate code to statements to understand it, it should probably be statements in the first place.
~ Unknown
As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it's probably not a good idea.
~ Unknown
Although other techniques (such as enclosing scope reference closures) can save details, too, instance attributes make this very explicit and easy to understand.
~ Unknown
In these times of rampantly increasing inequality, I would love to see a truly great social novel … books that really try to tell us how we're living now ... holding a mirror up to our society ... we can't think about trying to change our society before we understand it.
~ Mark Richards
Only those who have reached the limit of themselves, with nothing to offer in their own defence, fall into the abyss of love. In fact only sinners understand the gospel. It is not available to anyone else.3 David Runcorn
~ Mark Townsend
The silence was loud, like a scream. I could FEEL [the aliens] outside./ [The aliens'] patience was their strength. Humans measure time in minutes, seconds, MICROSECONDS./ Time never really mattered to the alien only SURVIVAL./ God help me. I was beginning to UNDERSTAND [the aliens].
~ Unknown
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
~ Cleveland Amory