Quotes About Understanding

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.

Genres are just names.

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this when you have no children?' Maybe I just do and that's how it is. It all comes from my personality and what I believe in.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up there then moved to Brighton and found all these other people with different experiences, different narratives.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

I grew up in this business... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet... and to understand our place in the universe.

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is the same way.

My hope is, and I know there are a couple of big manufacturers, and there always are - this is not breaking news - there's always somebody who has an interest in at least understanding the NASCAR opportunity, and so my sense of it is over time that we will have a fourth manufacturer.

I've never been in a place where I've wanted to be that nasty to someone.

I do think we need to find common ground on some of these major issues facing our nation.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.