Quotes About Understand

When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand and then look at it again.

Maybe if I smiled more when I made jokes, he thought idly, leaning against the side of the barricade. Then they'd understand what I meant. That, of course, raised the question: Did he want people to understand? It was often more amusing the other way. Besides, smiling was so garish.

I just couldn't understand the lack of political awareness by senior officers of the impact at the White House of their remarks to the press.

At first this difference seemed fairly minor, but then it grew…and grew…and grew …until I began to see why I missed it. Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge. We were both looking at the same thing, seeing the same thing, talking about the same thing, thinking about the same thing, except he was looking, seeing, talking and thinking from a completely different dimension.

Whether you look at no men at all, or look at every single one - it comes to the same thing. You can throw yourself at their hearts, because you've gone mad from being always a stranger; from not being able to understand how you can even bear to hold their hands in your own any longer than you have to.

The lamb," she said. I didn't understand at first. Things had suddenly gotten serious enough that my first thought was that she was segueing into speaking of religion. But it was simply dinner.

Smart investors understand taxes before investing.

It took a day to read the book, a day to take action

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

And your excuse?' I asked. 'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said. I gave him a look. 'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.' 'I thought you were friends.' 'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.

I was sidhe enough that I didn't understand the American trait of being totally fascinated with sex, and totally uncomfortable with it...'You are totally comfortable with this line of questioning, aren't you Meredith?' he asked. 'I am not ashamed of anything I've done, Mr. Verducci. They Fey, outside of some in the Seelie court, see no shame in sex, as long as it's consentual...It's sex. There's nothing wrong with sex.

I see," I said, which is something I very often say when I don't.

Shyness has laws: you can only give yourself, tragically, to those who least understand.

First you have to know and understand intellectually what you want to do - then you have to sleepwalk a little to reach it.

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.