Quotes About Understanding

Pero en el seno mismo de ese éxtasis, acababa de aparecer algo nuevo: yo comprendía la Náusea, la poesía.

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Cómo yo, que no he tenido fuerzas para retener mi propio pasado puedo esperar que salvaré el de otro?

El mundo de las explicaciones y razones no es el de la existencia.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live

I would so like to let myself go, forget myself, sleep. But I can't, I'm suffocating: existence penetrates me everywhere, through the eyes, the nose, the mouth... And suddenly, suddenly, the veil is torn away, I have understood, I have seen.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Above all, look for the loving, which is how all of this works. Without love, no matter what else we have, it will not work. And if we have love, no matter what else we do not have, it will work.