Quotes About Understanding

To be published as a "woman of color" makes me squiggle on a pin: I want to be read by white people, and not just white people who are interested in "black" writing. I want even my speaking about color to speak in some universal way.

Dragostea... Nu-mi place cuvântul ?sta, tocmai fiindc? are pentru mine o însemn?tate prea mare, neîinchipuit mai mare decît ai putea în?elege dumneata.

Mais ma femme, est-ce que je l'aime? Ce n'est pas que je l'aime, c'est autre chose que je ne sais comment t'expliquer [...] Est-ce que j'aime mon doigt? Je ne l'aime pas, mais essaie un peu de me le couper...

Thus the chief purpose of art education for life is to help students understand something about themselves and others through art and thereby contribute to personal growth, social progress, and a sense of global community.

A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.

W. Edwards Deming wrote, "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

What Christianity promises, I do not understand. What its god could possibly want, I have never been able to imagine, not even when I was a Christian.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

As Meghan carried on whispering with excitement, Nelthorpe-Cowne interrupted, 'Do you know what you're doing? Do you know anything about him?' Meghan replied, 'I've googled Harry. I've gone deeply into his life.' Nelthorpe-Cowne was left in no doubt that Meghan had carefully researched every aspect of Harry and his past life. She understood precisely the man she was meeting:

I would say to any young student today: Learn the language of the world. Get to know the language of the world because that's the way you're going to be able to communicate and have an impact.

The most memorable interviews for me are always the ones where I feel like I'm learning something new.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you'll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.

Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what makes people tick." Steven Pinker

The science of human nature… finds itself today in the position that chemistry occupied in the days of alchemy." Alfred Adler

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick. To

If you know a person's personality type their behavior begins to make sense.

In Psychological Types, Jung suggested two contrasting ways in which people saw the world. Some people can appreciate reality only through their five senses ("sensing" types), while others wait for internal confirmation of what is true or real, relying on their unconscious. These

As thinking is a process of judgment, the final element in this person's type is "Judgment." They are ENTJs. Other people's final letter is P for "Perception," indicating their strong desire to understand better.

They had no idea what was or wasn't appropriate behavior, no concept of the usual give and take of normal relationships.

As life often seems to boil down to the outcome of such interactions, it is worth understanding what is happening below the surface of what is actually said, and how to manage an encounter while keeping everyone's dignity intact.