Quotes About Understanding

The first thing we need allies to do is listen. Come to us with a willingness to grow and evolve. You're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but be willing to listen and grow from those mistakes. I think that's the most important trait an ally can have.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

There has been a genuine willingness from many in the arts sector to try to understand people who are not within the arts elite.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Losing your patience and your temper isn't the most attractive thing, but as kids get older, you wind up raising your voice.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.

In the past, I have been guilty of returning from work with some parenting words of wisdom, ignoring the fact that my wife has been dealing with the situation for a while. The correct strategy at these times is to wind my mansplaining neck in.

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Children of color need a mirror to see themselves in. And then people who don't have that experience, they need a window. They need a really personalized way to see what people who are different from them are going through.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.