Quotes About Comprehension

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.

Jack didn't fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn't comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus' necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn't stop laughing and had to sit down.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. A fine pair we make," he said. Yeah.

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.

I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive.

I'm a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don't want software that only does something but doesn't fix the other errors.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

Donald Trump may have a long undiagnosed learning disability that for decades has interfered with his ability to process information.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing cause anything can change in a script.

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.