Quotes About Understanding

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.

I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

Life experience is the best teacher.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

Life, the permission to know death.