Quotes About Understanding

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

I had developed a relationship with one of the anti-abortion sidewalk counselors who stood in front of my facility. We talked regularly through the fence and she had asked me to go have coffee with her one day. I was impressed with her persistence and, honestly, I thought I would really like her if I got to know her.

In my mind, a good leader would say, 'OK, I need to sit down and talk to the guys who oppose me. Let me let them voice their opinions; let me get their thought process.'

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

If you're a thoughtful person, you won't want to be in people's faces all the time.

Republicans and Democrats know Xavier Becerra to be a thoughtful leader who is always willing to listen to both sides.

I think it's a shame when people don't see the funny, thoughtful Mark that I know. He is incredibly sensitive and really cares about what other people need and want and really wants to be able to make someone else's day. And that's the Mark that I see.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Thoughts have no sex.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.