Quotes About Understanding

Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don't want to change their minds. They can't be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.

PRINCIPLE 9 Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

Para ser interesante, hay que interesarse.

Arguing with another person will rarely get you anywhere;

El odio nunca es vencido por el odio sino por el amor", y un malentendido no termina nunca gracias a una discusión sino gracias al tacto, la diplomacia, la conciliación, y un sincero deseo de apreciar el punto de vista de los demás.

It takes the relationship to another level

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind; PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people.

Opera tenor Jan Peerce, after he was married nearly fifty years, once said: "My wife and I made a pact a long time ago, and we've kept it no matter how angry we've grown with each other. When one yells, the other should listen – because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations." PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

This is achieved more naturally when the doctor puts himself on the same level of his patients

Ponte rápidamente de acuerdo con tu adversario".

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all." As Dr. Johnson said: "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Adular es decir a la otra persona lo que se piensa de uno mismo".

Demuestre respeto por las opiniones ajenas. Jamás diga a una persona que está equivocada.

La única forma de salir ganando en una discusión es evitándola.

When we talk about our mistakes, it makes us human.

far easier to give a talk that skims over the surface than to dig down for facts. But when you take the easy way you make little or no impression on the audience. After you have narrowed your subject, then the next step is to ask yourself questions that will deepen your understanding and prepare you to talk with authority on the topic you have chosen:

It becomes easier for people to relate to us.

You have made a mistake, Josephine," he would begin, "but Lord knows, it's no worse than many I have made.

It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?

Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.

you soften the approach and avoid raising his defenses immediately.

El protestador crónico, aun el crítico más violento, se suavizará y apaciguará frecuentemente en presencia de un oyente que muestre paciencia y simpatía: