Quotes About Understanding

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.

My wife, she knows me better than anybody else. She knows what I'm struggling with, and she knows where I'm at. And I have friends, pastors, and it's good not to have my only friends be people who think I'm special. It's really good to have people who think I'm just an ordinary guy.

I experienced life in a struggling team at Eintracht Frankfurt, but I was still young then and didn't understand what it meant to be relegated.

I didn't have a full understanding that there are people struggling with different things on a daily basis.

Being stubborn is not an asset. You have to be able to see things through other people's eyes.

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.

I read '13 Reasons Why' in middle school, and the message of the book stuck with me: to treat people better because you never know what they're going through.

For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

All students can learn.

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.