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Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. -- Henry Petroski
I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry. -- Michael Symon
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. -- Lynn Davies
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. -- Miroslav Volf
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information. -- Teller
I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner. -- Tracy Reese
The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding. -- Douglas Alexander
You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key. -- Rita Ora
Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data. -- Jefferson Han
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. -- Errol Morris
Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. -- Nicolas Cage
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all. -- Leroy Hood
Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power. -- Erwin McManus
Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about. -- Christina Aguilera
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. -- David R. Brower
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing. -- Jack Valenti
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. -- Stanley Clarke
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. -- Charles Kettering
I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.' -- John Searle
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding -- Elvis Costello
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding -- Elvis Costello
Art is not about understanding, itâ??s about experience. -- Antony Gormley
See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something. -- Sarah Dessen
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible. -- Irwin Kula
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery. -- Anthony Mackie
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. -- Carl Sagan
If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well. -- David Bentley
The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all. -- Albert Einstein
Love is not about liking, loving and caring, but appreciation, understanding and devotion. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding. -- William Thurston
Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything. -- Eminem
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship. -- Bruce Lee
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness. -- Alberto Villoldo
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel. -- Donald A. Norman
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness. -- Pope Francis
Why this fuss about understanding women?! It's so simple. All we want is everything, no compromises. -- Shweta Bhatnagar
A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife. -- Dan Jenkins
Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more. -- Merlin Mann
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. -- Eckhart Tolle
Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training. -- Tsoknyi Rinpoche
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming. -- Anna Kendrick
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false. -- Mamur Mustapha
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them. -- Duncan Green
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. -- Nick Park
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -- Juhani Pallasmaa
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. -- Robert Jensen
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. -- Antonio Porchia
A nice thing about being 40 is that you're not a kid about your understanding of sex or sexuality anymore. -- Guy Branum
One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be. -- Neale Donald Walsch
[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways. -- Candy Chang
I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding -- Herb Kelleher
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. -- Malcolm X
Understanding is, after all, what science is all about "? and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. -- Roger Penrose
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves. -- Alice Walker
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. -- Willard Libby
The key to understanding the answer to any questions about guidance is having a clear grasp of what is three-dimensional. -- Elaine Seiler
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy. -- James Patterson
I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help. -- Sebastian Seung
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. -- Charles Kettering
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. -- Ernest Hemingway
I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important. -- Bill Gates
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. -- Jurgen Habermas
It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied. -- Lauryn Williams
Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me. -- Pam Dawber
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class. -- Angie Harmon
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class... -- Angie Harmon
In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. -- K. Eric Drexler
I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales. -- Karen Russell
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world. -- Greil Marcus
Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding. -- Maya Tiwari
Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. -- Joe Torre
When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work. -- Michiel Huisman
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. -- Gavin Bryars
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. -- Wendy Kopp
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end. -- Harold Chestnut
When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago. -- Stuart J. Russell
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony. -- John Calvin
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. -- E. M. Forster
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached? -- Jeffrey Rowland
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. -- Stevie Wonder
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us. -- Peter Senge
I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding. -- John Searle
The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do. -- Thabo Mbeki
I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it. -- Anderson Cooper
You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car. -- Henrik Fisker
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. -- Sunday Adelaja
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. -- Alan Moore
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace. -- Daniel Dennett
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict. -- Sam Keen
Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life. -- Aisha Hinds
Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask. -- Richard Bach
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross. -- D. A. Carson
Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones. -- Eddi Reader
At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible. -- David Cronenberg
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted -- Henry Hyde
I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there. -- Richard Rogers
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. -- Toni Morrison
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults. -- Robert Winston
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. -- Andrew Wiles
The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number. -- Jim McDonough
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. -- Henry Petroski
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth. -- Ruth Reichl
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about. -- Tenzin Palmo
I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. -- Phil Klay
In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank. -- Stephen Karam
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions. -- Brian Schmidt
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. -- Franz Kafka
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. -- David Suzuki
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system. -- Jay Roach
Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. -- Chungliang Al Huang

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