Quotes About Understanding

I want to help people struggling with whatever it is they're going through.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. For all Americans together.

It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything.

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about.

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful.

Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.

I wouldn't impress my opinions on anyone.

People's opinions, you've got to respect them.

We all have opinions to what our parents really are, whether they agree or not. I'm sure they would feel the same the other way around.

No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

People are entitled to their own opinions and what they believe in, but it's very hard when it's something that logically does not make sense; but talking about it is always good.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

That has to help if you know the mentality of your opponent, and how he wants to play.