Quotes About Understanding

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

You can't control babies, they aren't robots and we don't have them all figured out.

My understanding of religion and science is that they're both arrogant schools of thought, and whether they acknowledge it or not they continually broadcast the idea that they have the world figured out. And what they don't know, they have a theory for which is probably correct. It feels like that shrinks the world, rather than expands it.

Men know what they want when we help them figure it out. We make them think they figured it out by themselves. They really didn't. We know we did it, and that's a woman's job.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

But I think sometimes, coaching less is better. That's the art of coaching, figuring out with each kid what is the right way to approach it?

I love figuring people out.

I don't really know that there's a sign that someone is going to file for divorce with no face-to-face conversation.

I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up close.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.