Quotes About Understanding

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.

Ever wonder what it's like to walk in another persons shoes? Try it sometime. Then perhaps you will understand the definition of experience.

Write bylaws in a simple language—no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.

When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter

The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.

I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Given the chance, people will buy from people who care.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

But when the tables are turned and we feel wretched, that softens us up. It ripens our hearts. It becomes the ground for understanding others.