Quotes About Understanding

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

Some of the first infographics I did started off as notes to myself: trying to plot out, for instance, how IP addresses are allocated. After a while, I thought, 'This is a neat thing I can share with people, and they can follow me along in that process of understanding.'

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.

Fat is fat. This goes back to the word 'plus.' We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

I feel like as much as there's a little pocket of people who do know me, there's a whole bigger pocket that doesn't and I want them to know me and understand who I am for real before making pre-judgments.

My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a gem, and I don't blame him for not understanding me. When I told him that I would be leaving, he checked his pocket and took out 100-rupee note and gave it to me. He did not like that I was leaving, yet he gave me the money.

Listen to the melody and the feel of the singer, and try to get inside the character of the guy who's singing to find an answer to that or an accompaniment that is in that same pocket, that's not showing off or playing above the song, or trying to put too much into it. Try to serve the song.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.