#understand

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#always #am #aside #box #career

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive. ↗

— Matt Damon

#also #directing #director #doing #feels

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being. ↗

— Claire Danes

#being #did #finally #formed #grow

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa. ↗

— William Foege

#beginning #diseases #economists #going #good

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it. ↗

— Al Franken

#advantages #being #book #down #easier

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about? ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#appears #been #customer #five #i

That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#bothering #critical #customer #customer service #customers

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#course #greater #having #history #long

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#surprised #understand #wonder

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#certain #experience #external #having #internal