Quotes About Comprehension

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I accept all of the music that I wrote.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

You have to train a dog to think.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

understanding a question is half an answer

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.