Quotes About Understanding

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.

Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

I would say the most important aspect of direction is that you, as a director, and your producer need to be on the same page, the same line of thinking. If that doesn't happen in the beginning of the film, then that will show in the final product 100 percent.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I'm talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn't their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.

I have never, ever argued about money with any of my producers because that is the kind of relationship and understanding I have with them.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.