#understand

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect. ↗

— David Petraeus

#art #best #bosnia #coalition #command

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#asking #doing #eight #how #i

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#even #i #make #people #understand

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#language #me #native #nothing #people

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#given #know #least #lie #makes

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#am #citizens #concise #constant #few

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#common #familiar #ideas #men #more

I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#difference #hair #heels #hire #i

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#as far as #century #far #held #huxley