It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.
All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Jake Gittes: He's rich! Do you understand? He thinks he can get away with anything.
Forrest Gump: Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
Alan Turing: You will never understand the importance of what I am creating here!
Cobb: [From Trailer] You're asking me for Inception. I hope you do understand the gravity of that request.
Donut: [in English] What are you prepared to do? Landlord: We can't understand what you're saying!
Andy Dufresne: I understand you're a man who knows how to get things.
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or oppor...
It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.