Once we understand or know something, we are in a much better position to act.
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Specifically, he seemed like someone of another culture that I didn't know or understand.
People don't know or understand how we feel as we work.
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Their advanced training in accounting and economics allowed them to know things about the markets that common folk like me could not possibly know or understand.
Sports fans fall in love with people and narratives they don't truly know, understand, or investigate, all the time, to the point that the undressing of sports fables has become a national pastime.
To get their story on this empire builder, Toni Mack and Phyllis Berman spent months chasing down business associates, cable television analysts and investment bankers who know Allen or understand some piece of his grand strategy.
They make an assumption because they think they already know and understand the other person, and they assume they already know his or her perspective.
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Often it is difficult to identify these funds or to understand their governance, much less to know how and why they make investment decisions.
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"Hopefully, it will just help both parties understand that people are more or less frustrated and they want to know where politicians are on issues, " he said.
And we understand there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to these challenges, but we know that we have the capacity to meet them.
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Knowing why that is being done with their hard-earned cash will help them understand if their money is being well invested or not, and will help them know what to expect.
It puts the fix for any problem on its website, it's our fault if we don't know about it, can't find it or fail to understand it.
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The trouble is that we often do not understand which mode of sociality is in play until we get to know the person or recognize the scenario.
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Let's understand for a second that -- I don't know what Senator Graham or Senator Bond said in 2005 when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an analogy that if you compared the recidivism rate of detainees at Guantanamo with the U.S. penal system, the detainee rate is less for -- the recidivism rate is less for Guantanamo detainees.
These guys seemed to know everything, the whole vo-cabulary of worldly gain and progress, so I paid extra attention during their memoir-brainstorming sessions, listened closely to their debates over how much the reading public did or did not need to know about their tortured childhoods in order to understand why they needed to make so much money in the manner in which they made it.
You either have to know (or learn) how to evaluate these trends, how to understand new, innovative business models and how to forecast their potential for success.
And it will provide welcome relief to small business owners, who -- I know you guys understand -- all too often have to choose between hiring or keeping your health care for yourselves and your workers.
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As I said on the Today programme this morning, to understand whether David Cameron has "won" or "lost" in Brussels, you need to know exactly what the budget is now, what it would be look like if it were held constant, allowing only for inflation (a "real freeze") - and what, precisely, has been agreed for 2014-20.
Buy into local ventures that you can understand, producing items you can touch or services that you can personally use and run by people you know and can influence.
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Now, I understand that some of you still claim it's not working or wasn't worth it, but I also know that you've used it to close your budget gaps or break ground on new projects.
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