It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
The new children are coming in. The families do not understand them. It does appear, from all the research that people are doing, that the new children are healing their mother and father by their very presence. So they may do it themselves, but, still, we've got to change what's happened here - our families are just total disasters.
North Americans don't understand. . . that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Novels are. . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.
I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand
I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much misinformation that towers over a person's head, it's really difficult to make the right decisions. Consequently, we just go along because it's way too hard to sift through the information.
If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.
One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter, you can get somebody's guard down, you can open them up to listening to you. They don't feel like they're being preached to or talked down to. I think it helps, it makes really hard to understand information a little more accessible and palatable. And at the end of the day, it makes a movie a little more fun. It doesn't feel so heavy handed.
Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.
Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.
We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.
The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.