Quotes About Understanding

The point here is that most reasonable people don't have to get their way in a discussion. They just need to be heard, and to know that their input was considered and responded to.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another.

Dave always reacts to people rather than responding to them. To have a strong opinion is fine, but to dismiss others' thoughts is not.

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This

3. How do you talk about and use the answers to these questions?

I have found that it is remarkably helpful for members of a leadership team to spend time talking about their backgrounds. People who understand one another's personal philosophies, family histories, educational experiences, hobbies, and interests are far more likely to work well together than those who do not.

Members of cohesive teams know one another's strengths and weaknesses and don't hesitate to point them out. They also know something about one another's backgrounds, which helps them to understand why members think and act the way they do.

I don't discuss 'issues' with anyone. And it's a vile, infantile word, you'd be wise to eliminate it from your slim vocabulary.

Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number.

For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even...' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth.

should very much like to see your excrement.' 'You shall, my dear sir, you shall.

Gómez de la Serna illustrates this with a dialogue between a critic and a sage: Critic: It is true that these pictures do not displease my eye; but since I do not understand them, I cannot like them. Sage: What did you have for lunch? Critic: Oysters. Sage: Do you like oysters? Critic: Passionately. Sage: Do you understand oysters?

I matrimoni degli altri sono una perpetua fonte di perplessità», commentò Stephen.

you cannot expect old heads on young shoulders;

Any time you want die, ask me, she replied.

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

And yet always you feel as though you understood perfectly the people and why they do everything as they do.Still you are absolutely severed from them.

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga'a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.