Carlos Ruiz Quotes

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

A man hears only what he understands.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.