Quotes About Understanding

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Government leaders should get up to speed on the blockchain by understanding it first and committing to exploring its potential.

I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don't explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that's a place that we have to look inside.

If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.

It's a great way to spend your time as a human: learning about other humans and then sharing that knowledge.

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.

Spending time in different areas of a business and making time to understand how everyone fits together is incredibly beneficial.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.

I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.