Quotes About Comprehension

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.

The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.

Notwithstanding such moments of comprehension as Kamenev displayed, the scope of the rural catastrophe was still clouded in Moscow by class-war idées fixes as the regime reflexively labeled the peasants' legitimate grievances "an uprising of kulaks, bandits, and deserters.

Mr. Magoo Rule: Text and graphics must be easily distinguished and recognized.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I learned long ago that when a thing defies rational explanation then it is because I lack a complete understanding of the facts.

It would be a great boon to know where we stand in this world, what is, what has been, what will be. And to know it absolutely.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

Logical thinking can outwit random processing!

All that you can imagine you already know

When you read and understand a poem, then you master chaos a little.

Because teachers often use much longer sentences when teaching, these kids are stuck trying to understand the first part while the teacher (or parent) is going full steam ahead with the rest of the message. The researchers recommend that teachers use short sentences and only go on speaking when they see that "lights go on" effect in children's eyes. And Dr. Sax adds that perhaps boys should sit at the front of the class, not the back. In

With all thy getting, get understanding.

I've noticed how most people don't know how to listen.

understand our situation.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

and at first I couldn't tell if he liked it or not. It was only after I'd finished "Light My Fire" that he sort of yelped and wrestled me to the ground (translation: he liked it). But I pinned him first. (Grin.)

The main thing you need to know about instructions is that no one is going to read them—at least not until after repeated attempts at "muddling through" have failed.

It's okay to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.

few people can understand more than three levels of nested ifs

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.