Quotes About Comprehension

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands.

My attitude is different. And no one understands me the way my friends do.

It's really tricky to find someone who understands the relationship that Tessa and I have, because it's unique.

I'm a big believer in making sure that action is not confusing and the audience understands what the characters are up to and what they're doing.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.