Understand Quotes
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
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I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.
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It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
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I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
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I know it does not matter that I do not understand.
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You will learn by reading, But you will understand with LOVE.
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It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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Was Jesus sleeping? There are mysteries of your wisdom and creation that we don't understand.
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It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.
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The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.
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All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey.
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I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
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So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear from the record that it does things that we don’t fully understand. And we’re not going to understand them in the time period we have to make these decisions. We just know they’re there. We may say, ‘We just don’t want to do this to ourselves.’ If it’s a problem like that, then asking whether it’s practical or not is really not going to help very much. Whether it’s practical depends on how much we give a damn.
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We have an obligation to enforce the border, ... it's important for the people of this state to understand, your voices are being heard in Washington, D.C.
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The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.
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When I wanted someone to give me the world, you accepted me and smiled and let me know that you were my girl. When I wanted fancy things- gold watches, diamond rings, you gave me your hand ’cause only you could understand.
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We all grew up as huge wrestling fans, and we need to understand why we liked it so much.
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In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
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Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
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Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.
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I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.
