Quotes About Understanding

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things.

I'm not a stupid man.

Can we agree there are no stupid questions? Probably not. But let's try anyway.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity.

Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.

To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

When I arrived, I didn't understand London customers perfectly, but we've developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I'm in harmony with London.

I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.

I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women - it's a lot. And when it comes to being a mom, I wish everyone could band together and realize that everyone has different beliefs, different styles, and different things that work for them and their family.

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

You see, in chess we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.

Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

Whatever we take from a film - personal, public, private, subconscious - a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.