Quotes About Comprehension

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The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

This is a book about everything. It is about everything I know and about everything I think you should know, too.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people have no way to wrap their head around it.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I'm one of those people who writes out words. All of my text messages? You can read them. Everyone would know what I'm trying to say. My sister will say 'BTW.' Do you mean 'by the way'? Is that what you're trying to say?

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.