Quotes About Understanding

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

I just want people to know me and to love me, because I have no love.

I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

My adoptive mother always wanted to meet my biological mother.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

Remakes are tricky and I wanted to approach 'Nerkonda Paarvai' as a fresh film. Taapsee and I are different people. Naturally, our understanding of characters won't be the same. Further, I didn't want to be influenced by her performance and I like it that way.

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

We're living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.