Understanding Quotes
5353 quotes by 3113 authors
-
The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple…
— Victor Koo
-
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
— Barry Ritholtz
-
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and…
— Bill Gurley
-
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the…
— Philippe Petit
-
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of…
— Stella Young
-
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have…
— Henry Giroux
-
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…
— Henry Petroski
-
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
— Henry Petroski
-
When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.
— Colin Angle
-
I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists…
— Lois Tilton
-
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at…
— Will Shetterly
-
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe…
— John Rhys-Davies
-
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.
— Cary Fukunaga
-
I have been very fortunate to be supported by many people in my career. I also appreciate my personal friends, business friends, and my family…
— Shuji Nakamura
-
I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its…
— John O'Toole
-
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
— Marian Anderson
-
Much learning does not teach understanding.
— Heraclitus
-
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
— Martin L. Gross
-
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One…
— Vannevar Bush
-
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he…
— Ezra Pound
Who Wrote These Understanding Quotes
3,113 authors contributed a total of 5,353 Understanding Quotes, led by these top contributors: