Quotes About Understanding

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you're related to — gets shot before you work it out.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

Intuition works best when you remember that "tuition" is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

The reason why things work is because of love.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

I don't really know what 'respect' means. That sounds like something a kid in the street says after he's getting ready to take your coat and your shoes.