Understand Quotes

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.