Quotes About Understanding

We in the so called 'Western civilisations' have so much to learn from other cultures, and they would stand to gain so much by learning from ours. We don't have all the answers - far from it... but nor do any other culture or religion.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

People criticising me for my emotional outburst are not humans.

Everyone has been an outcast at one point in their life.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

Often, just explicitly acknowledging how the other side must see things can help them open up to see your side and can help both parties achieve a fair and constructive outcome.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.

The truth is that Roy Hodgson and I never clicked because I was far too outgoing for his liking and I had to rein that in when I was in front of him.

I'm trying to differentiate Geurin from Deokseon. At first glance, the two may seem similar because both are outgoing. But as a person who knows Deokseon pretty well, I am confident that I can eliminate her specter in Geurin's character.

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.

I don't have to stand back as an outsider to look at society.

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

I do know what it's like to be an outsider.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

Every time you come across someone who looks like an outsider, the best way to go about it is to open your mind a little bit. You have to try to understand somebody who isn't like you.

Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.

To an outsider, understanding an NFL playbook is like trying to read Japanese.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.