Quotes About Understanding

Clarity precedes success.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

Understanding does not come through analysis;understanding comes only when the mind is very quite,unburdened,no longer seeking success and therefore being thwarted,afraid of faluire.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.