Quotes About Understanding

People have said for years 'never work with children or animals' but I couldn't disagree more.

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

If you disagree with me about a position I have taken, or what I've done, tell me, argue with me, debate. Sometimes, right and good are not that clear; at other times, it is only deliberate and respectful debate that leads us to understand what road we should take.

That's something that the world needs to learn today: that you can disagree and still be friends.

I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.

It's always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion - if not for compassion's sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they'll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.

If you are willing to listen and if you are willing to sit around the table, sometimes especially with the people who you think you disagree with the most, it is still really possible to get things done.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

We must have real debates where disagreements exist, listen to each other, not shy away from ideas different from our own and treat people with respect.

I believe when you're communicating with any player, you're going to have some disagreements.

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

I feel a great connection with my readers and would never want to disappoint them.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

When you don't come up on the winning end of it, it is disappointing and you have to look at why that has happened.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.