Quotes About Understanding

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.

If I ever see those pilots who dropped the bombs on me - or any American pilots - I would say to them, 'The war is over. The past is past.' I would ask those pilots what can they do to bring us all together.

I met lot of fighter pilots and heard their breathtaking experiences. They risk their lives for our well being. Not many understand the risks involved.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn what kind of person likes your dog - and what kind of person fears him.

Communication is important, and when you have an understanding with someone on the pitch, it is the most important thing.

We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

What I loved about 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was that it was about family love and growth and understanding. The riches-to-rags premise is just the wallpaper.