Quotes About Understanding

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language because that's the language of science.

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.

Luckily for me, people don't scream at me that much in my everyday life.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.

I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

I work from my heart. When I look at the script, I need to feel myself in the character.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

I understand the scrutiny; it's part of the job. And I don't want to be famous and can't be mates with the players.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen.

Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

I believe in giving people a second chance.