Quotes About Comprehension

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

You feel me' - that's straight from me. You can put a stamp on that.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

Math is pretty straightforward.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

Not asking what a statistic actually means is a failure of empathy, too.

I think I figured out a thing." "Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?" "Definitely one of the two,

Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)

The FBI was not incompetent or indifferent. It did not know what it did not know.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

5. No puedes hacer entrar en razón a alguien sobre algo que no ha razonado por sí mismo.

TF: There is a big difference between understanding something (what you want in a physician) and simply knowing its name or labeling it.

the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

Even today, I still benefit from that because I don't merge and bring things together and see everything as one big problem. I

clarity of writing indicates clarity of thinking.