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It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
Herb Kelleher
Myself
Try
Valuable
Practice
Something
Without
Understand
How
Trying
Imagine
Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.
Herman Cain
Time
Good
Me
Learning
Opportunity
Spending
Philosophies
Spending Time
About
Economic
Federal
Federal Reserve
Had
Known
Understand
Helped
Reserve
The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.
Herschel Walker
Life
Racism
People
Overcome
Difficult
Think
Touch
Had
Because
Understand
The Hardest Thing
Want
Anyone
Ever
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.
Herta Muller
Myself
Way
Clarify
Only
Written
Understand
Always
Happening
Actually
Things
Inner
I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.
Hiam Abbass
Myself
Good
Character
Hate
Human Being
Complexity
Bad
Would
Someone
Could
Written
Know
Cliche
Understand
Still
Behind
Human
Just
Being
Influence
Cannot
Reason
Why
Play
Need
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo
War
Long
Unable
Nevertheless
Became
Understand
Real
Greatly
Duration
Unfortunately
China
Japan
Regretted
Position
I, as a gamer, understand passion to discuss favourite games.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Gamer
Passion
Favourite
Understand
Discuss
Games
When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
Hilary Mantel
You
Women
Experience
Clothes
State
Sold
Inside
Had
Like
Perhaps
Most
Known
Understand
Department
Department Store
Being
Store
Sizes
Worked
Should
Notion
Thin
Fat
My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math to clean it up, and build systems to make it easy to understand.
Hilary Mason
Job
Build
Analyze
Our
Systems
Easy
Data
Clean
Raw
Look
Make
Understand
Math
Up
Products
Set
Spending time in different areas of a business and making time to understand how everyone fits together is incredibly beneficial.
Holly Branson
Time
Business
Together
Incredibly
Beneficial
Everyone
Spending
Spending Time
Area
Understand
How
Making
Fits
Different
Different Areas
When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage's school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back - by giving time, not just money - was so rewarding.
Holly Branson
Time
Great
Me
Experience
Money
School
Made
Giving
Back
Mine
Months
Great Experience
Giving Back
Understand
Truly
Friend
Just
Rewarding
Younger
Teach
Helped
Orphanage
I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
Holly Hunter
People
Care
Weather
Cold
Someplace
Never
Like
Understand
Quickly
dont Care
Get
Move
Really
Avoid
Why
There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it.
Holly Hunter
You
Experience
Young
Difficult
Difficulties
Way
Tell
Through
Know
Understand
Very
Going
Young Actors
Rewards
Anyone
Description
Actor
Flow
Career
If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment.
Honeysuckle Weeks
You
Live
Everyone
Hunting
Countryside
Understand
Just
Farmers
Enjoyment
Inside Iran, people are actually quite well-educated about America. There are things they don't understand, particularly in the government, but the people, by and large, know the American sensibility quite well, and the reverse is not true.
Hooman Majd
Government
People
Inside
About
True
Know
Particularly
Well
Well-Educated
Understand
Reverse
Iran
America
American
Quite
Sensibility
Large
Actually
Things
When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.
Hope Jahren
Understand
Boy
Came
Five
When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.
Howard Gardner
Art
Best
Wonderful
First
Ways
Pluralistic
Some
Something
More
Dividends
Through
Students
Like
Reach
First Of All
Learn
Because
Understand
Role
Stories
Etc
Really
Teach
Show
Works
Play
Second
Two
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner
Time
Knowledge
Culture
People
Organization
Long
Long Time
Important
Kind
About
Know
Talk
Call
Understand
How
Been
Lot
Task
Any
May
Often
Them
Who
Things
Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.
Howard Gardner
Truth
Truth Is
Vital
About
Determining
Individuals
Understand
Methods
Used
Asserting
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.
Howard Rheingold
You
World
Down
Teenager
Our
Broke
Easily
System
Complexity
Entering
Wrench
Could
Devices
Sophisticated
Beyond
Deal
Understand
Equipment
Fix
Automobile
Which
Capability
Your
Used
Now
Street
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey Newton
About
Could
Through
Until
Read
Understand
Five
Times
Republic
Plato
Actually
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.
Hugh Grant
You
Natural
Find
Menace
Given
Never
Know
Understand
Scorsese
Screen
Hard
Why
Bring
I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.
Hugh Laurie
Every
Everybody
Possible
Find
Direct
Variety
Absolutely
Emotional
Absorb
Puzzles
Combination
Practical
Calls
Understand
Want
Really
Required
Skills
Fascinating
Technical
Why
Wide
Level
Wide Variety
Set
Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.
Hugh Laurie
Work
Army
Own
Enough
Out
Seek
He
Retired
Him
Understand
His
South
Any
Where
Loved
Spain
Worked
Dad
Actually
Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process.
Hugh Laurie
Love
Best
Job
Every
Everybody
Find
Direct
Directing
Variety
Absolutely
Emotional
Absorb
Puzzles
Combination
Practical
Calls
Understand
Up
Going
Just
Want
Process
Required
Skills
Fascinating
Whole
Technical
Why
Wide
Level
Wide Variety
Set
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Hugh Leonard
Life
Time
Hate
Think
Crimes
Foolishness
Also
Understand
Understood
Did
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