Quotes About Understanding

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.

It is nice to know different languages and cultures because it opens up your window to life.

There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

You can judge the fact that I like video games or wine or love basketball or like going fishing. You can judge all that. But there are certain things that you can't, and I think people are figuring that out. Me, being from the old school, I figured that out early.

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.

When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a great speech and impress them. Instead, I will go down and discuss with those people about certain issues that we don't agree, and over a glass of wine we talk about it and they say 'okay, let's forget it.'

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

If everybody were to eat the 'Wings of Death,' you'd have a better understanding of them.

The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink and the nod, and the attitude and all that kind of stuff is a little easier to see with the sound off.

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

I am all for a good drag out argument every now and then, but the person that talks the loudest and uses the most curse words is not necessarily the winner of the argument.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Don't judge a person on winning or losing.

Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.