Understand Quotes

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.