Quotes About Comprehension

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Reading.... is brain protein - it demands concentration and sustained neural energy.

That moved me so much about you, the way you were a dumbstruck one and yet you seemed to know everything I did not know

Active listening consists of paraphrasing what the other person said, in your own words, in order to show them what you understood.

You pay attention to how people answer, instead of what they say.

switched Contexts, listen for: When? Where? With whom? and a verb.

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

We need time so to can explain the stuff in easy way.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Some guys, football comes really easy to them; they can see what all 22 players are doing, can see what all 11 guys are doing on their side of the ball, how it all fits together. It's easy for them.

The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly

I wonder if I shall understand you even at the end of a lifetime, he mused, folding his arms across his chest.