Quotes About Understanding

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

A public which likes to hear something worthwhile when you talk would like to understand something worthwhile when it sees pictures.

Each of us is called to do something in the name of love, to make sure that humanity comes to understand itself and is able to choose love over fear.

All parents want their children to be happy, but so few parents talk about it.

To get to love you have to start with love.

But how do we know? How are we supposed to understand such experiences—and such people? How do we make sense of them? How do we separate the special from the specious? Must we believe everyone's claim unreservedly, or may we doubt, test their veracity, or even laugh out loud at the absurdity of some?

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing that a catastrophe is going to happen, and knowing that it has happened.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

I must not take this or that doctrine by itself; but I must make up my mind whether or no it is the one only Catholic Church, and then I shall believe all that she teaches, because she teaches it, and not because I understand it.

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

One doesn't have to follow every proposition, make every connection-the intuitive or affective reading may be more practical anyway. What if one accepted the invitation-come as you are-and read with a different attitude, which might be more like the way one attends to poetry? Then difficulty would not prevent the flashes of understanding that we anticipate in the poets we love, difficult though they may be.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

T]he best bosses master the fine art of emotional detachment. They learn to forgive people who lash out at them... and they learn to forgive themselves, too.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. —Henry David Thoreau

Nolan Bushnell, the founder and former CEO of the Atari Corporation, remarks that "sometimes the best engineers come in bodies that can't talk

The first diagnostic question follows from the late writer Maya Angelou's assertion that "at the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

when I am there to visit and get to know the people and how they work, I can't learn much sitting in a private office.

Another misguided trick bosses use to demonstrate their brilliance – at least to themselves – is to develop incomprehensible strategies. Unfortunately, if your people can't understand your strategy, they can't figure out what to do. And, even if they can comprehend the twists and turns, the complexity can scatter their attention in so many directions that they won't do any single thing well.

Michael told me that he designs the "how" part of his actions "with the other person's point of view in mind." Even when breaking off with an asshole, he works to "convey the truth in respectful and empathetic ways.

Discuta como si tuviera razón, escuche como si estuviese equivocado».

Mennonite pastor Arthur Paul Boers offers similar advice in his book Never Call Them Jerks. Boers suggests that when parishioners are hostile and selfish, labeling them as jerks is insulting and detracts from a constructive focus on repairing relationships and changing behavior.

Porcupine power was the only language he understood.