It was a huge confidence builder to stand in front of 34 21-year-olds and explain something to them every day.
When I’m writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call ‘supernaturalism.’ As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I’m writing about.
I have these amazing feelings about having moved to Man U. I’m so proud of myself, you know. It’s hard to explain it and put it into words.
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don’t pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy – more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I’m pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It’s the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
It’s hard to explain to my parents what’s going on. You can’t compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn’t even know I could dream this.
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing ‘Fair Use’ and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive – the power is in love and forgiveness.
It’s abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can’t explain it.
I’ve discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there’s no need to explain it to them. The other half can’t understand and I couldn’t explain it to them. If someone doesn’t know why, I can’t explain it.
When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure – even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.
Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.
I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That’s why I wasn’t a great dancer – I couldn’t articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can’t explain it.
You can’t explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don’t have to. It’s that simple.
What I’ve learned is that everybody really wants to sell their story. No matter who they are, everybody feels that what they’re doing is the right thing, and if they could only explain themselves to a reasonable person that understands them, then maybe they’ll listen.
As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won’t be afraid to say so.
My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It’s not something I can explain, it’s just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it’s private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
In every interview I’ve got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It’s gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I’m as critical about music as everybody else is.
What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can’t explain it.
What I like about Bre.ad is the simplicity of it. When you can explain it to people, like ‘five-second billboards in front of a link shortener,’ it makes a lot of sense.
If I don’t explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I’m doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there’s things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
I have been to China. I noticed that wherever you went, you could ask an ordinary citizen, and he would explain, in detail, about free markets and all the other jargon of liberalisation.
I can’t even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom – it doesn’t have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations – but that doesn’t explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, ‘It’s whatever you want it to be’ – because I think that’s their intention, to connect with each person’s subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn’t explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Star Wars Galaxies’ didn’t ever explain itself to you. It was horribly broken; it was glitchy in several significant ways. It was just this vast, expansive, beautiful universe with all these crazy idiosyncrasies.
I think the best way to explain my brother is that he’s infectious and everybody falls in love with him.
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it’s an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.
Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don’t explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that’s a place that we have to look inside.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don’t really need to explain very much at all – you just say he’s a spy and he’s a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he’s not very good at his job.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
To be in a room and have to explain your point of view is a huge skill in Hollywood.
I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near to a train station, and the sound of the trains became a very important part of my world. It was a very musical sound to me.
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn’t explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Mmmm… the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It’s a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, ‘You had to be there.’
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
If I was in office, I’d get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, ‘This is how it’s going to be. We need y’all oil and water. Y’all need our money and technology. Now, what y’all gon’ do?’
I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won’t cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can’t explain it.
Generally, when I’m going to a new project, I take my own makeup. I’ll explain to them what it is that I would like. If they are receptive, we figure it out together. If they’re not, I’ll be going to back to my trailer and doing my own makeup. And that’s the same for hair.
