Quotes About Comprehension

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

My dad and I, we're just unique, we understand each other, we know what one another expects.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.