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The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
Steve Jobs
You
Commitment
Design
Mac
Thoroughly
About
Something
Part
Takes
Primarily
Like
Looked
Well
Although
Understand
How
Passionate
Chew
Up
Quickly
Get
Just
Swallow
Worked
Really
Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Life
Today
God
You
Thank God
My Life
First
Important
Big
Party
Thinking
Too
Spent
Alive
Know
Most
Most Important Thing
First Of All
Make
Ya
Sure
Understand
Important Thing
Years
Thank
The Most Important
Mean
Many
Whole
Now
Right
Thing
I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.
Sun Myung Moon
God
Will
Important
Point
Point Of View
Most
Call
Understand
Revelation
Us
View
Who
Why
Deeply
Orthodox
Christians
Heretic
By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
T. J. Miller
Love
Nature
You
Satire
Respect
Every
Enough
More
Parody
Make
Understand
Effectively
Target
Very
To Love
Aspect
Your
Fun
You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.
Terry Bradshaw
Life
You
Country
Big
Way
City
Totally
Country Boy
Understand
Boy
Big City
Truly
South
Than
Being
Different
Momma
Now
Raised
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
Thomas Kuhn
Time
Nature
Revolution
Increasingly
Our
Once
Way
Our Time
Crises
See
Feared
Impetus
Clear
Ally
Powerful
Powers
Force
Understand
Becomes
Subdued
Transformative
Now
Necessary
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
Thomas Mann
Life
Best
Good
Man
Mouth
Nothing
Best Part
Touch
Never
Part
Perfectly
Safe
Him
Smoke
Understand
How
His
Anyone
Literally
I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.
Thomas Peterffy
Love
Future
Great
Will
Think
Else
See
About
Something
Something Else
No Point
Point
Exchanging
Know
Understand
Much
Less
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
Timothy D. Snyder
Fashion
You
Business
People
Criticism
Please
Because
Understand
Go
Historian
Historians
Trying
Candy
Want
Explain
Then
Should
Avoid
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.
Tom Colicchio
People
Problem
School
Poverty
Lunch
Sugar
Symptom
Nutrition
Kids
Obesity
Eating
Lifestyle
Empty
Because
Exercising
Understand
Calories
Lots
Getting
Diet
Just
Where
The Problem With
Choice
Now
Right
Fat
Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they've set.
Tony Cardenas
Goals
Achieve
Decision
Drinking
Our
Drastically
Kids
Could
Underage
Understand
Affect
Poor
Chances
Set
You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.
Tony Fadell
You
Vision
Down
Assumptions
Paper
Put
Make
Partners
Understand
Ultimate
Going
Where
Product
Your
Milestones
Team
Need
Set
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Toyo Ito
Architecture
Language
Made
Too
Everyone
Complex
Architects
Simplify
Understand
Use
Need
I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.
Tullian Tchividjian
Bible
Hero
Say
Mad
Some
Abraham
David
Noah
Moses
Sure
Understand
Ultimate
Get
Etc
Paul
Fully
Why
Ever
Jesus
Christians
We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
Victoria Osteen
Good
Communication
Try
Listening
Sense
Every
Our
About
Someone
Open
Know
Talk
Understand
Always
Line
Trying
Just
Children
Gain
Them
Teach
Moment
Keep
Need
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
Wayne Dyer
Government
People
Responsibility
Somebody
Else
Ought
Mad
Jobs
Mentality
Understand
Lot
Getting
Them
Why
Things
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
Will Self
Life
History
Eyes
Experience
Confused
Group
Futility
Physicality
Individual
True
Merely
Between
Opening
Understand
Passively
Models
Sitting
Human
Conflicts
Processes
Social
Human Experience
Stands
Grasped
Even
Spectator
Need
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
Will Self
Saying
You
Blame
Experience
People
Sometimes
Other
Addict
Addiction
Dreadful
Responsible
Simply
Feel
Like
Himself
Without
Understand
How
Doing
Hear
Hear People
Times
Child
Behaviour
Done
Acknowledge
Again
Them
Then
Held
Thing
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
William Morris
Me
Experience
Words
Important
Took
Make
Because
Understand
Years
Often
Last
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Wilt Chamberlain
You
Stars
Kid
Those
Must
Color
Days
Like
Understand
Were
Being
Movie
Movie Stars
Harlem
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.
Wole Soyinka
War
Suffering
Evil
Thought
Made
Sacrifice
Every
Fragment
Way
Must
Unavoidable
More
Only
Purpose
Individual
Share
Attendant
Shatter
Understand
Buildings
Does
Than
Human
Human Suffering
Foundations
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono
Love
You
Suffering
Yourself
People
Somebody
First
Become
Understanding
Too
Other
About
Follows
More
Step
Also
First Step
Understand
Then
Sufferings
When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
Yoko Ono
Work
People
Feel
Like
Understand
Explaining
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
Young Thug
Song
Long
Think
Drake
Wayne
Minutes
Perfect
Takes
Because
Understand
Want
Them
Why
This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.
Hillary Clinton
Respect
Peace
Smart
Problems
Enemies
Perspective
Power
Partner
Every
Tool
Sidelines
Define
Possible
Security
Solutions
Determine
Point
Point Of View
No-One
Advance
Empathize
Call
Understand
Leaving
Trying
Psychologically
Far
View
Helping
Showing
Using
Even
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Vote
Dinner
Mouth
State
Say
Independents
Data
Potatoes
Unreliable
Mashed Potatoes
New
Call
Because
Understand
New Hampshire
Hampshire
Going
Middle
Polling
Republicans
Registered
Them
Ask
Granite
Full
Who
They Say
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