#under

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #came #colleagues #cut #daily

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#act #agencies #attacks #each #fully

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#i #i can #know #life #me

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#composer #film #good #good film #guy

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#most #probably #sad #things

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#against #challenge #clubs #field #him

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#because #box #buy #call #even

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#cure #difficult #enemy #environmental #environmental problems

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. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#back #emotional #giving #like #listen