Quotes About Comprehension

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Things that are so hard for people, like playing championship-level Go and poker, have turned out to be relatively easy for the machines. Yet at the same time, the things that are easiest for a person - like making sense of what they see in front of them, speaking in their mother tongue - the machines really struggle with.

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

I try to see everything I do. It's a good learning tool for me. You kind of remember what you were going for when you were shooting it, and then see how it comes across in the context of what comes before and after it.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.

You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.

Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

What bugs us, or should, is our lack of understanding about what is actually happening.

A dog doesn't understand mathematics, but that doesn't mean mathematics doesn't exist.

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I majored in speech communication at college—and psychology—and it all seems to work. I am a communicator. I love to talk—as you can see—and I love to make people understand, and listen to them and understand.

I smiled at him my oldest old-woman smile, as if I did not quite understand.

Every human knows everything, but each thing requires keys to open the locks to learn

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.