Quotes About Understanding

I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I have buddies who say, 'Where are you living ? Wyoming or something? Don't you still have a house in California?' I tell them we live in Idaho, and you can see it on their face and sense it in their voice: 'Um... O... K.'

So many transgender people in the community are being covered with this umbrella of misconception that we are going to hurt someone. But we are not trying to hurt anyone.

Being from the same umbrella as Jay-Z, I'm not political, but I'm sure whatever he's going to do with the NFL, he's going to branch out and open more doors for other players and for us to get a better understanding of the NFL.

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have two completely contrasting experiences from it.

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.

If the student sitting in a class is unable to understand anything day in and day out, then that has a serious and long-term psychological impact on his/her life.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don't know intimately.