Quotes About Comprehension

Any fool can talk, but not everyone can listen, receive, and process information.

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

I'd love to have my achievements recognised and for people to know enough about cycling to understand what my achievements mean.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' 'What is that, grandmother?' 'To understand other people.

To reason from a thing not understood, is to walk straight into the mire.

There are many things which a little learning, while it cannot really hide them, may make you less ready to see all at once