Quotes About Understanding

I'm a big believer in the complex realities of young people's lives.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

I'm comfortable with myself now, and I understand how goofy I am, how stupid I can be, how emotional I can be, or how focused I can be.

When kids are kids, everything a parent does seems goofy.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

Understanding language is core to a lot of Google products such as Gmail.

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

There's always someone that's dealing with a bigger challenge than you are. You've gotta have perspective.

I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why.

Naidu boasts of governance but does not understand what governance means.

Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.