Quotes About Understanding

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him.

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it's not going to get better... people have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people, because we're comfortable. We still have no clue what being born white means.

Empathy isn't the same thing as expressing emotions. It's not about sharing your feelings - it can be really uncomfortable if a parent cries or loses strength at the moment her daughter needs it most. The message sent is that you need to be taken care of, not the other way around.

Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.

When humans look at each other and look long enough into their eyes, some people are totally uncomfortable with that. I am not.

It's funny. Some people now are like, 'Why would you transition? Why can't you just be comfortable how you were born?' That was my logic, but at a certain point, I realized that I was born uncomfortable.

People always make me uncomfortable when they ask me: 'Who's this song about?' I feel like I let you read my diary and now we have to have a conversation about it! I already let you read it, let's just leave it at that.

I've never had a homosexual or bisexual experience, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable to dip into those feelings. I think a lot of women have those feelings without acting on them.

I am convinced that the better you know your mate off the pitch, the more you are able to work for him on it in uncomfortable situations.

If you are uncomfortable, you make your family uncomfortable because they don't know how to treat you when they come.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

As a partner, I have learnt so much from Payal Rohatgi. She has taught me the ways of this society and given me unconditional support.

Unconditional love is so important for people with addiction.

My wife has taught me about unconditional love. When there's a conflict, there's never a thought that we won't work it out.

As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don't, something's wrong with you, for real.

I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

As for gays, the church needs to be more loving, unconditionally, and willing to see these people as human beings, to minister to them and try to understand.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.