Quotes About Understanding

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something that is impenetrable. You try as hard as you can to be readable.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be 'Stands in Confusion'.

I try to put myself in the position of the fan and the fan in my position. So to be somebody in the stands and be just like everyone else as opposed to having a press pass around my neck is pretty fun.

In standup, you look for a common ground that people have.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

My old man is a man of few words.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.