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Quotes About Understanding

I think my sister loves being an observer more than I do.
~ Carrie Brownstein
Judging people is not an awesome job, it only demands being level headed and a good listener and observer.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.
~ Kelsey Grammer
Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
~ Mason Cooley
I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.
~ Joel Embiid
I do think observing is important in learning.
~ Roger Deakins
I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.
~ Lisa Hanawalt
My books are based on observing others, not myself.
~ Michael Korda
I love observing people.
~ Liv Tyler
I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
~ Jason Clarke
A lot of human learning comes from unsupervised learning where you're just sort of observing the world around you and understanding how things behave.
~ Jeff Dean
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
~ Toby Stephens
How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.
~ John Eccles
I have such love to the point of obsessions of people and their minds, and I'm constantly trying to find the beauty in things, and I think people are such unique and complex creatures.
~ Sasha Lane
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.
~ Robert Towne
The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.
~ Ivica Dacic
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
~ William James
Sometimes I make certain assumptions but find they're not immediately obvious to my players.
~ Niko Kovac
Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.
~ Todd Rundgren
What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.
~ Whit Stillman
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
~ Phil Crosby
If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.
~ Mason Cooley