Quotes About Understanding

I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

What's comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don't have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to my sister, 'I had a bad one,' and she'll know exactly the profound audition humiliation I am describing.

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

In the midst of our own daily struggles, it's often hard to share an understanding for what another person might be going through.

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

One of the problems maths struggles with is that it's invisible. We haven't got explosions on our side.

People-watching is my favorite thing to do. This is blowing my mind. I fixate on one person, and then I think about the struggles in their life. I think about what made them walk the way they do.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

I have received so many messages from people all over the world who've connected with 'Leave A Light On' and shared their own story of struggles and the people who've helped them.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I feel like I want people to... I guess not be as judgemental of situations because they might not know the full story. Just to try to be nice about other people's struggles and be understanding and not judge people based on their circumstances.

Roommate struggles are real.