Quotes About Understanding

My dad and I, we're just unique, we understand each other, we know what one another expects.

The fundamental thing for anybody, any relationship or any expedition or anything is communication.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

I find it easy to act being in love. I've experienced that and analysed it.

I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

If we rush too quickly to be scientific, to begin our experiment or catch our criminal as soon as possible, we risk never getting to the answer at all.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

I'm not an IT expert myself.

I'm no real expert on China.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.