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It also helped me to avoid the trap people in my profession sometimes fall into when trying to innovate, where we are quick to apply a technology before we've firmly grasped the problem at hand.
A student said, "This class felt like sitting in a bar with a really smart friend who's explaining something you haven't grasped, but are about to."
I thought I couldn't believe in StoryCorps any more deeply than I did, but it was at that moment that I fully and viscerally grasped the importance of making these recordings.
And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes.
I had not yet fully grasped the way that the prosperity gospel had become the great civil religion, offering another transcendent account of the core of the American Dream.
Characterisiation and script - and sometimes the acting - is creaky like a school play...but worse, there's a sort of peacock self-certainty about the direction which is just soul destroying when the director clearly hasn't grasped...he's just no good.
We discussed each paragraph in great detail so I grasped the concept pretty quickly.
I just leaned back and let my mind be grasped by this film and I loved it.
OK, I was a few minutes late in so not sure why this was, but I think I grasped the 'this guy is a bit of a badass who you don't want to mess with' message behind the ingenious scene.
A very slick modern (keeping it sensually hip) revamp on the Dracula story (although staying with the traditional customs) with quite an interesting, if not fully grasped back story of the prince of darkness.
I'm certain I grasped what took place in the film but the whole delivery of the story was rather lousy.
I was utterly confused as to the story almost the entire way through, but I still grasped the concepts, and it really didn't matter.
It is from the quadrangle they form that Wilbur finally finds what is missing in his own life, and wants what his brother has so easily grasped: that love, in the forms and shapes around us, is all that will eventually make life worth living.
The message is simple and repeated over and over again because the contemplative life is simple and they spend their days trying to "grasp that which cannot be grasped": "Grace" and God.
The two leading characters in this film played by Gosling and Hopkins really grasped my interest.
What Levitt grasped - and what the Enron debacle shows so clearly - is that incentives matter, but that unfettered markets by themselves may not provide the right incentives.
Grave as these setbacks may be, the scale of Germany’s difficulties can be comprehended only once their causal link with developments in Italy is grasped.
It was only natural that where chemistry fell short, physics--and its premier laboratory--showed the way forward, a way grasped by Watson and Crick in the epic breakthrough that we celebrate this month.
The advent of television called for a more personal and understated presentation – brilliantly grasped by John F. Kennedy – and was more conducive than ever to the rapid takeover of public discourse and consciousness.
Recently I traveled in distant regions of Russia, where I grasped the enormous disconnect between the center (Moscow) and Russia’s periphery, between rulers and ruled.
Luther quickly grasped the potential of the printing press to spread his message, effectively inventing new forms of publishing that were short, clear, and written in German, the language of the people.
In fact, projections of rapidly rising Medicare and Medicaid spending in the US – and similarly rapidly-rising governmental health care expenditures elsewhere in the developed world – are not so such a problem to be solved as the side effects of an opportunity to be grasped.
Some companies have already grasped this and are investing in their employees’ continuous learning, re-skilling, and up-skilling.
If they had not grasped this opportunity, they would have sought another.
But only recently have we fully grasped just how important land-use management is in addressing climate change.
The seriousness of China on this issue, and now India, the enthusiasm of Brazil and others in the emerging markets to participate in tackling climate change: all of this offers a huge opportunity that should be grasped.
So this year is perhaps a good moment to appreciate the visionaries who have understood that sustainable progress relies on the development of new and better theories whose impact may not be fully grasped for decades – indeed, that may continue to ramify 100 years later.
One of the most notable was just how poorly we grasped the linkages between the financial system and the broader economy – as well as the linkages between countries.
Meiji Japan grasped the advantages of making the nation a macrocosm of the family.
Indeed, most commentators have not fully grasped that a world war is occurring.
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