Quotes About Understanding

Every baby is a person who has language, feelings, and a unique personality—and, therefore, deserves respect.

If two smart and logical people disagree it's because they are acting on different information

I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen," West said years later. "There's some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can't under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together.

Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems too, or that you're in a hurry.

Listening to the man's story, Jim felt he'd been granted a privilege. This was intimate contact with life, the very thing he had missed during all those years of reading philosophy.

This sounds basic, almost too basic to mention, but listening is a strategy and a skill that is losing ground in society. Most people think they are good listeners, but if adults played "the Telephone Game" today, how accurate would the final message be? Listening requires focus, and focus isn't easy because we're stretched in several directions. Listening

As the first component of social competence, social awareness is a foundational skill. Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them. This often means perceiving what other people are thinking and feeling even if you do not feel the same way.

Relationship management is your ability to use your awareness of your own emotions and those of others to manage interactions successfully.

The more we understand the beauty and the blemishes, the better we are able to achieve our full potential.

Suspending judgment of emotions allows them to run their course and vanish.

ignoring your feelings does not make them go away; it just helps them to surface again when you least expect them.

Being an open book on your end isn't the whole story with managing a relationship—you also need to be interested in the other person's story as well.

Giving feedback is a relationship-building event that requires all four EQ skills to be effective.

Instead of making a change and expecting others to just accept it, take time to explain the why behind the decision, including alternatives, and why the final choice made the most sense. If you can ask for ideas and input ahead of time, it's even better. Finally, acknowledge how the decision will affect everyone.

Social competence is made up of your social awareness and relationship management skills; social competence is your ability to understand other people's moods, behavior and motives in order to improve the quality of your relationships.

Since we're hard-wired to experience emotions before we can respond to them, it's the one-two punch of reading emotions effectively and then reacting to them that sets the best self-managers apart.

Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them. This often means perceiving what other people are thinking and feeling even if you do not feel the same way.

Only 36 percent of the people we tested are able to accurately identify their emotions as they happen. ADAPTED FROM AND REPRODUCED BY PERMISSION FROM JULIA WEST Triggers

Listening and observing are the most important elements of social awareness. To listen well and observe what's going on around us, we have to stop doing many things we like to do. We have to stop talking, stop the monologue that may be running through our minds, stop anticipating the point the other person is about to make, and stop thinking ahead to what we are going to say next.

What Self-Management Looks Like Lane L., healthcare administrator Self-management score = 93 What people who work with her say: "Lane is the epitome of patience and understanding during heated, emotionally-charged meetings.

People who manage relationships well are able to see the benefit of connecting with many different people, even those they are not fond of.

It takes practice to really watch people as you interact with them and get a good sense of what they are thinking and feeling.

1.  Start with agreement. If you know you are likely to end up in a disagreement, start your discussion with the common ground you share.

Thus, when we read Genesis we are reading an ancient document and should begin by using only the assumptions that would be appropriate for the ancient world. We must understand how the ancients thought and what ideas underlay their communication