Quotes About Comprehension

Ci sono tantissime cose che continuano a confondermi in italiano. Le preposizioni, per esempio.

Only when things are reread, reexamined, revisited, are they understood: letters, photos, words in dictionaries.

The better I understand the language, the more confusing it is.

L'inglese e l'italiano sembrano i punti più vicini. Avendo in comune molte parole di origine latina, condividono un certo territorio. Inutile dire che mi capita spesso in italiano di incontrate una parola che conosco già grazie all'equivalente inglese. Non posso negare che la mia comprensione dell'inglese mi aiuti. Ma può ingannarmi.

Credo che leggere in una lingua straniera sia il modo più intimo di leggere.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike, if you really don't understand all that, you don't need to put it on there."

You have to make people understand that things cost something. Otherwise it seems like they have no value. I can't just be giving away rabbits. No. It costs five bucks, so make it work for you.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

Wisdom solves almost anything

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.