Understand Quotes

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

I want the white people to understand my people.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.