Quotes About Understanding

You must write to the people's expertise.

I can learn a lot from reading briefing books and talking to experts, but that pales in comparison to what I can learn from going out and talking to people about what they're actually experiencing and hearing about their ideas.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.

In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.

I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.

I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.

I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

My dad never explained anything growing up.