Quotes About Understanding

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

I enjoy learning about other people. I really didn't understand that until 'Moonlight.'

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

I do not morally judge any character and resist judging anybody in real life, too.

When you seek to destroy somebody, all you do is empower them, because they feel like, 'you see? They don't want us to have our rights to feel the way we want to feel.' And they get more and more emboldened and more and more empowered.

When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.

If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.

I learned English from watching American movies and American series. And you'd watch the movie the first time and not understand anything. Then you'd watch it again, and you'd start understanding more and more, and that's how I learned English.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

In art, in music, in everything, I think the more you experience, the more people can empathize with you.

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.