Quotes About Understanding

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

The best way to make change is to know how something works. If you're going to go build something or change whatever it is, if you don't know how it works and you're trying to go make a change in it, the first thing you're doing is you're spending time figuring out how it works. The same thing happens in organizations.

I've never been a business person, nor have I ever pretended to understand the first thing about it.

For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.

If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find out what's wrong with the data. Once you've done that, and it still seems wrong, that's when things get interesting. It means you've found something new to understand.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Fashion is very complicated for machines to learn - something that is intuitive for a human is usually the hardest thing to teach a computer.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.

I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

The most important thing I learned is that when you are actively learning about someone else you are passively teaching them about yourself.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.