Quotes About Understanding

When you look at it only from your own perspective, it's easy to think that only you have suffered harm. But if you change your thinking... you can approach the other person first and say, "I'm sorry. Please forgive me.

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26

Our true nature doesn't need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend.

well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.' 'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits.

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your connection to the natural world and all that. You do that, and you can hear it. All the talking.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

No such thing as a stupid question

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Tell me what you know. • Tell me what you don't know. • Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which.

Leaders need to know ground truth and not just what they get from reports and staffs.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.

eyes widened, and a tear slid down her cheek. "I've never

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. —Isaiah 40:28

Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

Ross took her hand and squeezed it, smiling to hear her more coherent. Her contrariness was music to his ears. "I'll let

If a pair of pigeons alighted on a discarded newspaper page on a New York street, would they understand the content of the paper?

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.