Quotes About Comprehension

When I can see things through the lens of the director, it's like being able to see the whole puzzle - it's not just about my role, but the whole script.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

I am quite fluent in Odiya. I understand the people of Odisha, and they understand me.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it's a foreign language to me.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

I think I fundamentally understand the way Trump thinks.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

You and I are like two people . . . He paused and began again more quickly: Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read 'Monkey's Soap'; if you look back when you've passed it's 'Needs no Rinsing.' . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

girl rattled on in her good-tempered, homely way, Mary began to notice what she was saying.

The documents were in English—sort of—but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even duller reading than her chemistry text.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sonrió comprensivamente. mucho más que comprensivamente. Era una de esas raras sonrisas, con una calidad de eterna confianza, de esas que en toda la vida no se encuentran más que cuatro o cinco veces. Parecía contemplar por un instante el universo entero y después se concentraba en uno con irresistible parcialidad; lo comprendía a uno hasta el límite en que uno deseaba ser comprendido.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot—