Quotes About Understanding

To exploit the opportunity for innovation offered by unexpected success requires analysis. Unexpected success is a symptom. But a symptom of what? The underlying phenomenon may be nothing more than a limitation on our own vision, knowledge, and understanding.

taking pride in such ignorance is self-defeating.

It is incumbent on the people who work with them to observe them, to find out how they work, and to adapt themselves to what makes their bosses most effective. This, in fact, is the secret of "managing" the boss.

Autonomous managers in a federal structure cannot be content with "reports." They must think through what top management needs to understand. And they must accept the responsibility for educating their top management.

Listen first, speak last.

Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton. Look Norton, she said, This is a baby. Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the information. There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp. You've finally done it, she said to me. What? I wanted to know. Most mothers would have said, 'Look, Charlie, this is a cat.' I started to laugh. Not with Norton, I said.

The purpose of feedback is to improve conceptual understanding or increase strategic options while developing stamina, resilience, and motivation—expanding the vision of what is possible and how to get there.

What if instead we said, "Look at how you …" That would simply turn children's attention to the process and away from fixed-theory explanations.12

Cheryl: When you don't understand what someone said, remember, it's your job to ask them to explain.

Third, by not judging it as good or otherwise, the teacher shows that judging is not what happens in this class. Instead, we think about how and why people do things.

There is no question that "discourse penetrates a fair way into the perceptual system" (Harre and Gillet 1994, p. 169).

Feelings, too, are socialized—we learn what they are, or rather, we acquire meanings for them.

Marie Clay (1993) refers to this as attending to the "partially correct." Its significance cannot be overstated.

Bila je ?ovekoljubiva.

I no longer understand anything literally. I cannot wait until I wake up, whereas earlier I could not wait to fall asleep. I have been made to speak. I have been sentenced to reality. - Do you hear it? (Silence.) Can you hear? (Silence.) Psst. (Silence.)

Cuanto más me doy cuenta de lo mucho que tengo en común con todos, tanto menos solidario me siento con uno determinado.

Estar sentado frente a alguien, con la nueva y vieja idea de que lo más natural sería estar juntos y que es totalmente incomprensible estar sentados así, de a dos, cada uno por su lado.

Usually I said nothing at all; as a waiguoren I was often most comfortable when I was listening.

Like many Peace Corps volunteers all over the world, I found that the parent visit was a kind of revelation: suddenly I saw how much I had learned and how much I had forgotten.

Asking for sympathy is just another way of asking for permission.

Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.