Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.
On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.
To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
Russia is a state within a state. To understand the population of Russia, you need to know the areas of the country; you need an understanding of the people and their interests.
Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them.
There is no one in the world that can best understand you the way you understand yourself. It only take you to make the best of you.
A best friend isn't someone who's just always there for you.It's someone who understands you a bit more than you understand yourself
To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure.
My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool; Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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.
