Understand Quotes

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

I only understand realism.

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.