Quotes About Understanding

My family has always been my circle. I know it might sound kind of weird, but if you know a little bit about me, you'd understand.

'Nothing To Say' is a song for friend circles that struggle with a member of that circle who seems to never have anything good to say.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

Virginians deserve civility.

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody until you've gotten into a good fight, and I think that's the situation with Superman and Batman.

My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know a lot of words, and so reading signs and stuff is becoming better, or going to a supermarket. But some specific words, of course, you don't get in your first year.

I was surprised by how little they knew about me at Barcelona. You can accept that from a supermarket cashier - but not from someone who works in football.

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions, or ghosts. Before we understood that we live on a planet, and there are others, the only answers to where we came from had to be something supernatural.

It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.