Quotes About Understanding

You had to be there at the time to understand the wild creative energy of the Fab Four, and this contains forays into Indian music as well as classics such as 'When I'm Sixty-Four.'

A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.