Quotes About Understanding

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.