As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're so disappointed, and you're so blindsided by it, it hurts.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

We all understand there's an inherent risk when you step on the field in football.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

This is the extreme left's problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don't listen to and understand Americans, you'll pay the price at the ballot box.

I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise, it doesn't interest me much.

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.

Being a dancer myself, I can understand the travails of youngsters performing in 'Magadheera.'

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

People go on Snapchat - I don't understand it. It's the first app I felt, 'Oh no, I'm out of touch with burgeoning technology. I'm not 16!'