Quotes About Comprehension

Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.

You don't understand!" she exclaimed bitterly. "That," said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, "is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience.

And I thought I was the only one who put two and two together!" Everyone

What is the answer? [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?

Some one who was living was almost always listening. Some one who was loving was almost always listening.

No, she replied, you see I feel with my eyes and it does not make any difference to me what language I hear, I don't hear a language, I hear tones of voice and rhythms, but with my eyes I see words and sentences and there is for me only one language and that is english.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

I learned a lot in my life by paying attention and listening to how people around me worked.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

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?

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

When I was told that I was doing a movie called 'Lola Rennt,' I was like, 'What?' I didn't get it, or the title. I started reading the script, and I still couldn't fathom that it was about a person named Lola running. Before my agent explained it to me, I couldn't even make any sense out of it.

To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

puppies learn best from an understanding teacher.

I know. I'm angry because I understand, not because I don't.

I could feel something slowly shredding itself within me at how innocent they were, at how little of what Malkar had done to me they would be able to comprehend, even if I were able to describe it to them. I found that I did not want to hurt them by showing them their own blindness; this was all in the past, anyway, and it would do me no good to shock them with it.

It was starting to scare me a little, how easy I could read his face and what he did and didn't say. That ain't the same as being able to handle him, and I wasn't even pretending I had any kind of grip on what he might do when he was topside, but I was getting to where I knew his madness like it was an old friend.