Quotes About Understanding

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.