One must understand, for example, that for him the term "motion" meant change in general – not just the change in position of a physical body, which is how we think of it.
"But then when you meet him and you get to know him as a person, you understand that for him, it's bigger than basketball.
I didn't understand for a moment.
By the third day they all understood that for him the camp was not a camp, work was not work, summer was not summer, that for him there was neither swimming nor any of the pleasant restful joy of holiday-time, which tends to predominate at such gatherings.
It's important for us to understand him and for him to understand us".
Her ability to bulldoze her way into Cooper's life and not only understand him but love him for it is the heart of the story.
Sadly missed by all who knew him, understood him and honored him for his humanity, integrity and especially his love of learning and music.
"People need to understand him for who he is," she said.
Having moved to Reading in 1969, aged nine, the Belfast-born star talked of how his schoolfriends didn't understand him for about two years before he adopted an entirely English accent.
But it became a rambling, often tetchy performance from Putin, repeatedly scolding journalists for failing to understand him, or for leaving their mobile phones on.
He had not understood for years.
