The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.
How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
