- Grievous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Disciplines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go out a lot, as I like to stay in. I often go for dinners with my girlfriend, and I love to see movies at the cinema, but I don't understand them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
- Galleries
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters to help shape policy or try to balloon things or do tests on ideas or people for different jobs. I'm talking about nefarious, unnecessary, backstabbing, palace intrigue-like leaks.
- Chinese Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020