Quotes About Comprehension

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

Whatever the issue, there is always something else to be said, another voice to be heard.

Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.

And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said.

And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said.

They feed on the meat of this remark, gauging its flavor and vitamin content.

After I'm gone, write it down. Explain everything. Make it mean something.

Getting the quote right isn't what matters. It's remembering what it means.

Breadth and depth. What the editors want.

I must be able to tell more than what happened. I must tell why. It's breadth and depth again—the ol' B and D—and I am used to that.

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

La gente es más de lo que creemos. Y también menos. La clave está en entender ambas cosas.

They see the pattern, understand the order, experience the vision. Peter Drucker

En su siguiente (o primera) visita a un Starbucks, a una tienda Apple, a una oficina de FedEx o a una empresa similar, rétese a descubrir cómo interactúan los seis elementos de la matriz visual: color, forma, escala, orden, detalle e información.

And we do that by making sure they understand the idea behind the work they're being asked to do.

Most of the time she could slip into other people, so to speak, and discover what they really meant and who they actually were behind their words. But she couldn't do it with this visitor. No matter how often she tried to understand his thoughts, she always got the feeling that she was falling into empty darkness, as if there weren't even a person there at all.

Anyone who still thinks that listening is nothing special should simply try to do it half as well.

Belki ÅŸimdi pek çok kimse, bu da bir ÅŸey mi, herkes dinlemesini bilir, diyecektir. Oysa hiç de öyle deÄŸil. Çok az insan gerçekten iyi bir dinleyicidir.

The problem was that you didn't always know what you were seeing until later, maybe years later, that a lot of it never made it in at all, it just stayed stored there in your eyes. Time and information, rock and roll, life itself, the information isn't frozen, you are.

We study natural stupidity instead of artificial intelligence.