Mark Haddon Quotes

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

I try to speak from a place of understanding and most times I'm speaking from a place of experience.

I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that we need to hear.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.