Quotes About Understanding

I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and right.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn't really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn't be able to speak - he was diagnosed on the severe end of the spectrum.

I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.

Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Speech happens to not be his language.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.