Quotes About Understanding

We put people at the center of everything we do.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

Having a kid, it really puts a lot of things in perspective, and really kind of shows you what love is, and what it should be and what impact it should have on your life.

Family puts things in perspective.

Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?

Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.

I believe that the fighters know. It's just the people not actually fighting who need to understand more that we're putting our lives on the line.

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

When I can see things through the lens of the director, it's like being able to see the whole puzzle - it's not just about my role, but the whole script.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

I would be happy if I were Jesus. I'd like to fix everyone else's problems more than my own.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.

I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.