Quotes About Understanding

Understanding the psychology of changing norms starts from a simple insight: although we may wish to be perfectly rational and impartial, bias is an inescapable part of what it means to be human.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I like to live life in a way that I understand, it's satisfying. I understand you have to reach a mark where everyone likes you but in reality they don't like you, they like your work.

An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

We've reached a point where people don't even know how to look for anything fundamentally important anymore.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.