Quotes About Understanding

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

I have a lot of respect for everything my mom had to do. And she made sure I understood how to respect women in ways that some people don't. She opened my eyes.

It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is ageless.

Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.

While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had found it easier to talk openly about mental health challenges in the home.

Yes, I discuss race openly, honestly and, hopefully, intelligently.

I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

Humor is a huge part of the way I operate; if people can't understand a joke then they should not follow me.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

Everyone should give a second chance, but everyone is also entitled to their opinion.