Quotes About Understanding

Facts are often complicated.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

When I moved to India, with all due respect, in the last 10 years I have been here, I have seen my biggest failures and it only happened because of lack of understanding. To make things work and happen, you have to know people. I don't like this whole thing of greasing palms.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

You just can't fake chemistry.

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.

If I had a row with my husband, it's not going to work my saying, 'Right, if you don't do what I want, I'm going to walk out.' It doesn't work on any level. What you do is you go in and you say, 'I have a problem. You have a problem. Let's try and sort this out together.' You don't come to an agreement with people who you're falling out with badly.

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.