Quotes About Understanding

It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

When you're around somebody all the time, you butt heads every now and then. That's what happens in every family.

I've loved hip-hop all of my life, but there came a time in my life when my entire life had a shift: where, before, I was just kind of going to church every now and then; then, there was an actual change, where I actually understood who Jesus was, actually understood the message of the Gospel, and my entire life changed.

You know, everyone needs somebody to talk for them every now and then.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

Nowhere else, perhaps, is the Quran recited so much and understood so little as in India.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.