Quotes About Understanding

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.

This is what hearing God is all about, isn't it, Loren? Getting to know Him better.

What did I think of him? I, who'd worked with him hand-in-glove longer than all the rest, and who knew him better than anyone -- including Mrs. Blackthorne? He was a first-class son of a bitch. But how many men have you known who were first in their class at anything?

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Spider was circumscribed by spider ideas; its universe was spider universe. All outside was irrational, extraneous, at best raw material for spider. As I proceeded on my way along the gully, like a vast impossible shadow, I realized that in the world of spider I did not exist.

There are subjects for which I have more than ordinary affection because they are associated in my mind with kindly and understanding men or women--sculptors who left even upon such impliant clay as mine the delicate chiseling of refined genius, who gave unwittingly something of their final character to most unpromising material.

By keeping your intended messaging personal, humble and professional when it comes to the perception elements, it will not make your message clear to everyone, but you will have a better chance to engage that many more with a greater understanding. All too often, many of us are focused on our intention but we miss the mark when it comes to the perception of that messaging.

do not believe in my truth and I do not believe in your truth. I believe in the truth.

The most effective brand messaging strategy is not to create the messaging that makes the most sense to you. It is creating the brand messaging that makes you, your brand and your products make the most sense to others.

No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.

That's all everyone wants—to be loved. To belong. To be forgiven for their sins.

Why should we always "understand" our abuser, the villains, the mendacity of evil, the people who let

us down? Does understanding help us heal? I don't think anything really heals trauma. You just find some kind of narrative to learn to cohabit with it.

Right. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.

Matthew figures it must be pretty horrible to need therapy if it makes people so sad.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Don't you remember telling me that you're the brain and I'm the brawn? Naturally I expect you to do all the talking. And naturally I shall knockheads and toss people out of windows as required. Or did I misunderstand? Did you want me to think, too?

Men don't know what they want. Women must show them.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.

Everybody knew gentlemen could be obtuse, especially when it came to matters of the heart. Everybody knew, as well, that gentlemen needed to believe they were in charge. Therefore, ladies had to learn ways of communicating the obvious without being obvious about it.

You couldn't help yourself," he said. "Actually, I couldn't," she said. "If I hadn't the opportunity—if you hadn't been so shockingly understanding—and tempting—" "I worked damned hard at that. The tempting part. I wasn't sure you were paying attention." "Apparently, I was doing little else but.

Stifle it,' Longmore told the boy. He needed a clear head to find his way through Sophy's rabbit warren of a mind. He couldn't do that and translate the boy's deranged version of English at the same time.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.