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Quotes About Understand

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.
~ Alice Sebold
When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.
~ Roberto Mancini
It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
~ Richard P. Feynman
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
~ Richard Dawkins
I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made 'Howards End' and 'The Remains of the Day,' or that Paul Thomas Anderson made 'Phantom Thread.' They're about Britishness, but they're from an American perspective. And I actually think they're fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.
~ Andrew Haigh
What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.
~ Malcolm Fraser
You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.
~ Michael Shermer
We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.
~ Ray Nagin
At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up.
~ Greta Thunburg
We as politicians have to understand that the greatest threats to our security are no longer conventional military ones. You cannot nuke a famine.
~ Barry Gardiner
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.
~ Paul Prudhomme
There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
~ Marc Davis
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
~ Kenneth Cranham
I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.
~ Don Was
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
~ Arne Jacobsen
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
~ Robert B. Laughlin
It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.
~ RuPaul
I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.
~ Paul Walker
When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?
~ Valerie Faris
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
~ Saint Augustine
He knew through this great work of motherhood, we would slowly be conformed into the image of Christ, and from this commitment we would come to better understand His fatherhood, His sacrifice, and His unmerited favor toward us.
~ Sally Clarkson
I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.
~ Salma Hayek
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
~ Salman Rushdie