Quotes About Understanding

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

It's the rule of the two F's: I've got to be a fan and I've got to be a friend. We only work with people we have a cool personal relationship with.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats.

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

Books and minds only work when they're open.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.