Quotes About Understanding

we still have a long way to go in terms of creating a rock-solid science that could match the certainty of, say, physics and biology. In the meantime, we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick.

The common route to this knowledge is life experience

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived at by selective abstraction.

Events, or acts of understanding, are the actions of a subject expressed as a verb, the reality of which derives from the person who conjugates it.3 For

Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

I love my cats, and I guess they think I'm okay. But I do sometimes get a very strong sense that they are purring at me, not with me. 5

Science requires a rational audience.

The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham

Successful change can only come in the context of a clear understanding of what may never change, what the organization stands for. This is what Peter Drucker calls the organization's culture. Culture, as he uses the term, is that which cannot, will not, and must not change.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

I was 15 when Chernobyl happened, I've been vaguely thinking about it for most of my life. But somewhere around 2015, it occurred to me that I didn't know how it happened, which seemed like a pretty bizarre lapse in my understanding of the world and how it functions.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.

One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.

It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

I don't like to take people lightly even if the odds are against them.