#understand

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#basis #chef #cuisine #exciting #go

I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#america #been #before #choose #chose

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#being #brain #control #describe #does

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#better #close #discover #each #eager

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#bigger #hollywood #i #i always #life

Some things are more than we can understand. ↗

— Christie Watson

#understanding #life

Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together. ↗

— Andrés Neuman

#language #love #lovers #relationships #translation

Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible. ↗

— Tracy Deebs

#love #understanding #love

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning-to-read #richard-feynmann #sense-of-humor #studying #understand

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bias #compassion #comprehension #discernment #fear