Quotes About Understanding

That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

When I was first trying to explain to my parents that I was really a girl, my father didn't know what to do. He had these preconceived notions about what his family was going to be like, and when I didn't fit into those notions, he just ignored what I was trying to tell them before he really came around.

Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I've realized you can't do anything about human nature except to ignore it.

If I had a son, I want him to be able to grow up in a world where he would not be called a sexual predator for trying to kiss someone.

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

There will come a time when very few will care about other people's sexual preference - or preferences.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

I'll admit I'm still getting used to using preferred pronouns here and there. Actually changing the way that you address people can be a challenge. It's not from a place of not understanding, but conditioning.

Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know about them?' Well, I've got my imagination, and I can write about women. Yes, I'll never be pregnant and give birth to children, but I can imagine a bit of what it's like. When you create characters, it's just about making them really real to people.

When I was in high school, if one of my friends got pregnant, I'd be the first person they'd come to. I never was judgmental.

When I told Carmen I was pregnant with another boy, she came to me and said, 'Mommy, how about you have another girl then you can have another boy?' And I told her it doesn't work that way.

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.