Quotes About Understanding

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.

We need people to be motivated, know what good looks like and why it makes sense for their businesses, services and products to cater for disabled people's needs and wants.

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

It's good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what's going on. But that's not the motivator: if I was a political person, I'd have gone into politics.

If my role requires a certain kind of dialect, which I think I am not confident enough to do, I'd prefer a dubbing artist then. There shouldn't be a selfish motive, and it's always better to have a certain understanding between the director/producer and the actress.

Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason.

Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.

Necesitamos aprender de lo obvio, más que indagar en lo oculto. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Los economistas han entendido durante siglos que cuando los precios están altos, las personas tienden a comprar menos que cuando los precios están bajos. Sin embargo, incluso hoy, muchos no entienden las múltiples implicaciones de ese simple hecho.

Articulation plays an important role in the dissemination of knowledge, as knowledge is conceived in the unconstrained vision.

Intellect—even intellect that reaches the level of genius—is not the same as wisdom.

As Will Rogers said, everybody is ignorant, but just about different things.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.