Quotes About Understanding

They needed to be STUFFED INTO IGLOOS until they came to their senses.

A dragon who understands me, finally. A dragon as deep and dark as I am, who sees my anger and wants to be nearer to it instead of freezing it away.

but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

Ha," Starflight said. "Let's take a few back for Tsunami.

Blue couldn't imagine that was true. Blue cared about all of them: every dragon he'd ever spoken to and all the ones he'd never seen. There were dragons out there eating blueberries and dragons laughing at clumsy tiger cubs and dragons learning to dance and dragons crying as though their hearts would break over missing homework. He'd been all of them in some way, and he couldn't just toss them into the talons of these angry, vengeful dragons and fly off.

I know," he said, looking down his nose at the SandWing. "Obviously I figured that out. That's the only reason I'm agreeing to this." "Oh," Qibli said with a rakish grin. "I thought perhaps it was because I'm so charming and convincing.

Who cares about all that ancient history?

This is going to sound weird, Moon offered, but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

Sundew saw Cricket flinch and Blue gently rest his tail on hers.

It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature.

the kusulu, the simple meditator. "For this type of person, the main point of the Buddha's teaching involves nothing more than understanding the difference between recognizing and not recognizing mind-essence. Not recognizing is samsara, while recognizing is nirvana or liberation.

Within complexity I discovered dharmakaya; within thought I discovered nonthought.

I've learned to listen not to what peolpe have to say 4but how they say it. I watch them closly how they speak, in particular their eyes.Lips lie, but the eyes never do.

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in

leaders confuse the mere transfer of information to an audience with the audience's ability to understand, internalize, and embrace the message that is being communicated.

People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary

Ask dumb questions.

company needs to be able to articulate exactly what it does, whom it serves, and against whom it competes. Why? Because all employees should be made to feel like salespeople or ambassadors for the firm, and they cannot do this without a fundamental understanding of an organization's business. More important, without this understanding, employees cannot connect their individual roles to the overall direction of the larger organization.

Conflict is nothing more than an anxious situation that needs to be resolved.

avoid, as much as possible, telling clients what they would do if they were to be hired; instead, they just start serving them as though they were already a client. And

they make it clear that their focus is on understanding, honoring, and supporting the business of the client. As

commitment cannot occur if people are unclear about exactly what is being committed to.

When people who don't trust one another engage in passionate debate, they are trying to win the argument. They aren't usually listening to the other person's ideas and then reconsidering their point of view; they're figuring out how to manipulate the conversation to get what they want.

It is at once shocking and understandable that intelligent people cannot see the correlation between failing to take the time to get clarity, closure, and buy-in during a meeting, and the time required to clean up after themselves as a result.