Quotes About Understanding

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.

I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge.

We need to break the stigma around depression.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

I avoid listening to too many people's comments about my script. I have learned to take in what is of use. It's too frustrating looking at somebody's notes who didn't get what you were doing. If somebody says, 'This stinks, and here are all the reasons,' that's not going to help you.

I like to be a peacekeeper, and I just don't believe in stirring up conflict.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

We're closer friends in Stone Sour than I am with the guys in Slipknot and that makes life a lot easier. I'm not trying to take anything away from Slipknot.

If my son is not performing well, I would not pelt stone on him - this is not the way a Hindustani behaves.

I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.

ARMYs are the ones who've stood by our side since our difficult days, who've shared our joy and sadness, who know us best.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

Along with the music, there is a large part of my father's legacy that has to do with what he had to say. What he believed in, what he stood for, the understanding of his own darkness, the faith that he had that drove him, and the great love that he had for people.

When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it, then it's hard to take it without a large pinch of salt.

There have been times I have stood in for women.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.