Quotes About Understanding

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it seems to give people a lift - an unshackling or freeing.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.