Quotes About Understanding

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

I love you as much as you love me... So if you hate me, it works out perfectly.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.