Quotes About Understanding

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.