Quotes About Understanding

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.