Quotes About Understanding

The minute you forget who your fan-base is, that's the minute everything falls out from under you.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm trans, does that mean you have the familiarity to use certain language? And I don't mean with just me but with the community.

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.

The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.

Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.

Great teams, you see players working off of wavelengths. Telepathic, not even actual physical things.

We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.

We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

I think compassion is the only way to approach any subject, especially if it's to do with physical appearance. I don't think it's really about tearing something apart.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.