Understands Quotes

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.