Quotes About Comprehension

I love math.

Math was always my best subject growing up.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Everyone underestimates the maturity of kids.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned.

It's hard to get your head around the scale of Australia.

I've tried to learn what everybody is doing, not just my one position. If you know the whole scheme, it's easier.

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

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.

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

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

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

I know every part of their lives. I know about their animals; if they've got a dog, I know its name. My players love their dogs. I know about their partners; I know if they go to the cinema - it's the detail you need to be successful. If they have an ice cream, I know about it.

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.