Quotes About Understanding

If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

If you want to really learn something, try teaching it to someone else.

Instead of feeling like you are the computer genius, descending from computer heaven to save your poor customer from purgatory, turn the tables around. If you're, for example, working in the insurance industry, think of your customer as a subject matter expert in insurance from which you have to learn in order to get your job done.

Because we all make mistakes, we also know that everyone else makes mistakes. So, within reason, we don't judge each other on the mistakes we make. We judge each other on how we deal with those inevitable mistakes.

As you're reading through code, you will find things that you would have never done. You will find things you might have never even thought of. Why? What was the developer thinking? What were his or her motivations? You can even learn from bad code with this kind of critical, self-aware exploration of an existing work.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

There are better ways to teach a child compassion.

When a person comes to talk to you, you should be patient and listen. Especially if he has hurt you in any way.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

Literature is a power, like a foreign language you possess.

And while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

All marriages are mixed marriages.

How hard it is to hate a person you've once loved.

Thank you for grieving with me. Your tears made me feel as if my own were worth shedding.

Let the people you love grow in their own ways. If they ask you, yes, offer your wisdom, the benefit of what you've learned during your time on earth. But the best thing we can give them is our love - not our advice, and certainly not our judgement.

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

To know another language is to have a second soul.

Avoir une autre langue c'est posséder une deuxième âme.

Jacob, I know you sometimes wonder about God. But let me tell you something, God never has to wonder about you. He knows, son. He KNOWS!