Background Knowledge Quotes

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

You don't just call a person out to a fight if you don't know their background, what they've been through, and how to test them.

Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.

Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.

I have a strong art-history background.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I saw the pilot, you know, because you have to have some knowledge of the piece that you are in, but I never saw an episode of 'Lost.'

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.

There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

You don't have to know anything about the Shakers to appreciate Mr. Copland's score for 'Appalachian Spring' any more than you have to know who William Randolph Hearst was to understand 'Citizen Kane.'

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.

People make very many comments in life when they don't have the background or the knowledge.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.