Quotes About Understanding

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

For a homosexual, he's one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he's good at what he does. You know, he's got leadership ability, and if these people here would listen to him, he would take 'em a long way. But anyway, me and Richard got to be pretty good friends - not in a homosexual way, that's for sure.

Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

Knowing that more people associate Chicago with street violence than generosity is difficult for me because, despite all my proclamations of being from the Bay Area, I have spent much of my life in Chicago. So I have a deep love and a pretty good understanding of the city.

I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend.

I'm pretty good with languages.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There's a danger that we are becoming stuck in a bubble and losing the ability to communicate.