Quotes About Understanding

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

Patience for me is a big thing. Patience with others. Patience with the way the world is evolving. I have a sense of urgency because I want to help out so much.

Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.

Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.

Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance.

I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.