Quotes About Understanding

I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and a thing of art in many ways.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

Being present with a person and just seeing them for who they are is something that is so rarely given to us, and I try to do that with everyone I meet.

When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.

Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.

I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Our whole lives, did any of us actually think a quarter of a percent was actually an interest rate?

It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

It doesn't sound rational for a Klansman to sit down to dinner with a black man. What you're overlooking is, to be racist is to be irrational. So, they are already irrational, and irrational people do irrational things. That's why a Klansman will sit down with me.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.