Quotes About Understanding

Aim for the Heart, Not the Head "Lesson number one, when people ask me what [interviewing] tips would I give, is aim for the heart, not the head. Once you get the heart, you can go to the head. Once you get the heart and the head, then you'll have a pathway to the soul.

The culture of news is a culture without nuance.

Véase el apartado titulado «La ley de la categoría».)

if we move beyond the education bubble that we're living in today, the future will be one in which people can speak about these things more clearly.

something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.

Listening is about being present, not just being quiet.

Sometimes, the clues that you put outwardly are too subtle to be heard, or someone is just talking louder than you.

information without emotion isn't retained.

when I speak with anyone about anything, I try to hold their perspective with a "light grip": the knowledge that they, and I, have very incomplete maps of reality.

no tienes paciencia para leer algo, no tengas la arrogancia de comentarlo.»

Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . "The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn't have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It's all used all the time, and in complex ways that we don't always understand.

Los límites de mi lenguaje representan los límites de mi mundo».

Many of the one-liners teach volumes.

Truth is that which has predictive power.

Creo que la claridad por escrito revela claridad de pensamiento».

Y en qué consiste el estudio emocional de una idea?

Complaints about reality are immature.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

When I understood praise as loving appreciation and warm and human acknowledgment of God, I found it inviting. I found that I wanted to praise God.

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

The law of Moses, properly understood, points beyond itself both backwards toward the Abrahamic covenant and forward toward its final fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

She gave me the slow nod women use to indicate that they understand our pain, they admire the courage with which we handle it, and they're absolutely certain that it's all our fault.

If my life is a house," she said, "you haven't even gotten to the living room.

just as human doing does not place a demand upon the actions of God, so, too, human gazing on the visible objects of creation and history does not deliver a right conception of the divine.