Quotes About Comprehension

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.

Naidu boasts of governance but does not understand what governance means.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best.