Quotes About Understanding

Raising teens is a challenge - that's for sure.

Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

A song like 'Telescope' was about a friend of mine. He doesn't know it's about him.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists - they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

I remember my mom telling me that when John Belushi died, my dad cried. I remember thinking that was strange as a child, but today, I kind of get it.

I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.