Quotes About Understanding

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

The problem with wonks is that they can't deal with emotion and feeling, and they don't like stories. It means that they cannot connect at all with the feelings and imaginations of the voters.

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.

There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.

It's about going to where your voters are.

In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.

Hearing Mr. Trump in person, I finally understood why millions of voters, especially voters who have been ignored and left behind in this economy, connect with him.

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.

I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.

I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot.

Segregation is not exclusion.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.

Self-realization is great.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.

You answer anger with love. You answer anger with selflessness. The answer to anger is always the opposite thing of anger.