Quotes About Understanding

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

Tell me one friend you haven't looked at with hatred and then hugged the next day.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

One of the things that make actors good is their capacity to listen.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

People see me and assume one thing, and they get to know me and see that there's more there.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

One word in one system might mean something else. You have to get a feel for it and study hard and then also when you get into these game-plan weeks, just bear down on what we're doing on a week-to-week basis.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.