Quotes About Understanding

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

The Barcelona players have reached an amazing mutual understanding that they can play with their eyes closed.

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

I prefer to be liberal and non-judgmental, which helps me reaching out to the people in a better way.

If you can see these people... as human beings and capable of change, there is hope. We should be willing to reach out. Imagine what could happen if we kept reaching out to people like Westboro members?

What's important is to listen before you react.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

I love working with an actress that you can just look at them and be able to react with your eyes and not have to do much else.

I don't ever judge somebody by what comes out of their mouth 'cause I don't know what they're thinking. Sometimes people might just say things just to see how you react about it. People might say things to you just to try to throw you off your game. Doesn't necessarily mean they're a racist.

Seeing how people react to a situation, you can tell a lot.

Most actors work on a scene, I try to find out who the character is. So when a scene or a moment comes, I react the way she would react.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

When you see bad acting, that's usually what it is - they're not listening to the other characters. It's always hard with first-time actors to get them in that moment where they are really listening to the other characters and reacting to the other characters.

I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.