Understand Quotes
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If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.
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Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.
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If you don’t understand what other people want, you can’t help them get what they want and they can’t help you get what you want.
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
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They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.
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My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.
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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
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[...] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
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From working with Ralph Lauren, I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn't understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That's why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph - he owns that garment.
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Before I leave for the office in the morning, I read the 'Financial Times' and the 'Economist.' The key articles I need to understand are there, after which I focus on prep for the day.
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Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
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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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I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.
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I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
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People can be cruel. People hate what they don’t understand.” “But, Dad, they don’t want to understand.” “Maybe they don’t. But we have to find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn’t turn us into hurt animals.
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Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.
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Who am I to judge what I don't understand?
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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
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I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.
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I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.
