Quotes About Understanding

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

When I have these negative thoughts and feelings, I like to dig into them because I like to get under them and see what's in there.

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

With my name, there's been a lot of negativity around it. I'll be real. I understand it.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Everybody's got baggage, and not just the classic, 'Oh I have so much baggage,' but everyone comes with so much context, and you're not just dating a person: you're dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other's context.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.