People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

No one saw the recession coming.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.