Quotes About Understanding

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord.

A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

compromise is the work of mature people.

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

Collaboration is when you find somebody who, literally, complements and gets you that you can work with. Collaboration is when you really, really want to work with somebody.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.