Quotes About Understanding

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Facts do not speak.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

Everywhere I have gone in the world, even though we don't speak the same language, food is the same language.

Listen more than you speak.

As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.