Quotes About Understanding

I'm not a huge fan of Britney Spears' music but I very much understand her relevance.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

Working with special needs children is hard.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

Other species help children develop empathy.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.

We are a complex species to observe.

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.