Quotes About Understanding

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

Women always have some mental reservation.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

When you listen to other women's stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.

The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?