Quotes About Understanding

REMEMBER: it is impossible to evaluate, or even understand, anything that you cannot measure." 80

As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue." —Thomas L. Friedman

18. Notice how I take "you" out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it's implicit. "Normally, you make priorities clear" sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other, you can skip this formality, but never use "you always do X," which is just a fight starter.

love, be loved, and never stop learning—

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bash? Japanese poet of the Edo period

we think we understand the world, giving investors a false sense of confidence, when in fact we always more or less misunderstand it.

So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. That's what doesn't make sense. The world always makes sense.

Feel good about really hearing those who disagree with you.

Da igual cuánta gente no te entienda. Lo importante es cuánta gente sí lo hace.

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.

Algunos recursos resultan obvios a primera vista, mientras

5. No puedes hacer entrar en razón a alguien sobre algo que no ha razonado por sí mismo.

You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing.

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein,

Learn more, know less.

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."—Henry David Thoreau

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bash?

Therefore, to be furious and enraged and bitter that people don't get all of who we are is a really a cruel piece of immaturity.

If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.

if the woman can refrain from trying to change or mother her partner, she has a greater opportunity of putting herself in a position where the guy will respect her. A man needs support. I mean, I love you guys and you're all strong, but you're very fragile, and you need to be supported and [for us to] help you fully realize your voice, whatever that is.