Quotes About Understanding

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.

My advice to anyone being picked on for being different or for working towards a dream is to remember it's never personal. These people don't actually dislike you at heart. They're just going through difficult things in their own personal lives.

I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.

I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Usually all I care about is how elegant or over-the-top the pieces are, it's nice to really get to understand what the customer wants and needs as opposed to just focusing on the aesthetic.