Quotes About Comprehension

No es por Horacio, amor, no es solamente por Horacio aunque él haya llegado como una especie de mensajero. A lo mejor si no hubiese llegado me habría ocurrido otra cosa parecida. Habría leído algún libro desencadenador, o me habría enamorado de otra mujer… esos pliegues de la vida, comprendrés, esas inesperadas mostraciones de algo que uno no se había sospechado y que de golpe ponen todo en crisis. Tendrías que comprender.

Every long sentence can be broken up into shorter ones, and if you don't know how—if you don't see within your long sentences groupings of simple, clear ideas—it will show.

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all.

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.

Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'. "To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English," Peter said. "It's taken me most of today to get through a page.

That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

As is usually the case, those who lived at the time did not fully comprehend the enormous consequences of the events they witnessed.

What you get out of a poem becomes what you're supposed to get out of it by the very act of getting it out.

Once you become fluent in a language or in a set of ideas, you immediately internalize them to the extent that other languages and ideas sound automatically strange and foreign.

My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I'm happier with things.

I stared at him. I kid myself that I understand people, that I can predict what stupid, pathetic thing they're going to do next.

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

His physics was good, but his arithmetic awful.

We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.

One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon some central motive.

She learned more about this part of the world from his retelling than from her own living

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem. ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh

To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.