Quotes About Understand

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

My dad is a fan of football, too, and did a good job of making me understand the history of football.

The one thing I didn't understand was the Minor Leagues, how that part of the business works. I'd see Todd Hollandsworth out there one game, and the next game he wouldn't be there, and I didn't understand.

The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.

My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a career out of it.

Not at all, I just don't understand how the Arch Alchemist became mortal all of a sudden." "Because he split his soul into seven pieces and hid them all over Justice City," Toby retorted. "You turned our comic book into a Harry Potter rip-off?" I spluttered.

I can understand the concept of the "reluctant reader," but for me it's akin to saying somebody really doesn't like to eat. Or breathe.

They had spent a few years in Paris, but they had still to undergo a real education — one which no school, lycee or university could supply: they had still to undergo their education in suffering. Then they'd be ready to understand what this was all about.

I just give the class what I understand of what it wants, and keep an eye on it to see what it wants next.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

No, I mean your quandary. An iffy dimension where I'm afraid for or worried about one of my daughters, like you, where I cross a boundary and then she gets pissed.' 'So you're saying what happened is normal?' 'I think so. It's easy to overstep out of worry. It can infuriate them, though sometimes they understand later on.' I was

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.

Another alternative would have been to give you what's called a popular-scientific lecture, that is a lecture intended to make you believe that you understand a thing which actually you don't understand, and to gratify what I believe to be on of the lowest desires of modern people, namely the superficial curiosity about the latest discoveries of science.

I have always thought that Darwin was wrong: his theory doesn't account for all this variety of species. It hasn't the necessary multiplicity. Nowadays some people are fond of saying that at last evolution has produced a species that is able to understand the whole process which gave it birth. Now that you can't say. [Drury, Conversation with Wittgenstein, p174]

In regard to methodology, science has tended to say, "What is very difficult to study doesn't merit study." And in regard to natural law, science tends to say, "What is very difficult to understand doesn't exist." The church has been a bit more broad-minded. To the religious establishment what cannot be understood in terms of known natural law is a miracle, and miracles do exist.

I was drawn to the contemplation of human injustice, I inclined myself to attenuate it, to explain it, to classify it in parts, to understand it, not according to a rigid pattern, but according to the time and place.

This is the immoral reflection I intended to make, which is more obscure than immoral, because one does not quite understand what I mean.

Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?

We live under the illusion that if we can acquire complete control, we can understand God or we can write the great American novel.

I understand what you're doing, and I know what it means for me. You're trying to escape. You're trying to discard me. Don't give up something that could be wonderful, just because you're scared.

when we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have a way to successes out of the unsucessful.