Quotes About Understanding

As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.

Listen with an open ear is the first, most important thing to do. From there, if people feel like learning more, that's when you can kind of go deeper.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

I feel things deeply.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be the default - many people of color have to step into the shoes of white people. Women have to step into the shoes of men.

I think when you play with the same defence, you sort of understand each other's body language, and you read off each other, and it's much, much better.

Listen, I'm always going to defend my character, even when she's doing something that I don't approve of, because that's what you have to do to love them and play them.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

I'm going to continue to be the defensive player that my team needs me to be and the real basketball people will get that.

There's always going to be those families or even just individuals who can be quite defensive.

I believe that one bad decision should not define a person.

What is marriage anyway? How do you define it? I think, for me, it's being friends.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

I don't know enough about manliness to define it.

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

I don't think being white defines who I am.