Quotes About Understanding

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world.

I don't think there is enough understanding of how diverse black America actually is.

I think if you have a diverse group of friends, you can constantly learn from each other.

The study of the amino acid sequence around the disulphide bonds of the immunoglobulins was my own short-cut to the understanding of antibody diversity.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

Don't tell me what I need. Start looking at the people in front of you, appreciate the diversity in the community, respect it. Don't debate it.

Diversity is where it's at for me. I think we need more and that could be all kinds of different cultures, big conversations.

Even though I was based in New York, I would travel all over the world, meeting so many different types of people, and that's really when my understanding of diversity deepened.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

In our own country, you can't divide people.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

I believe that having conversations about difficult things is a part of a process and that it should happen. You don't avoid it because it's difficult. And you're not dividing more by having a respectful conversation.

If you really love someone, you can't be angry if they don't love you the same way. You got to just love them because you love them, not because you're expecting anything back in return.

It just feels good to talk to the coaches and know what they're expecting so I can get better and just be happy.