One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.
I know firsthand that the characteristics of a great engineer - problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of technology, and a results-driven mindset - are the exact same things that any executive, in any industry, must have in order to succeed.
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a culture.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
I thought comedians were the funny guy in the common room, not understanding that the flaws in my personality were actually the funny things about me.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
