Quotes About Understanding

Humans know everything, not just how to take car rides or where to find bacon but also when dogs are good or bad and where dogs should sleep and what toys they should play with.

But people don't always make sense. Dogs love them anyway.

We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best—helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death.

why has it taken so long for you to say it?

My dog back home, Molly…" CJ said to me, and her voice trailed off. She sighed. "I needed Molly so much, Max. I was younger when I got her, and stuff at home … it wasn't so great. But you—it's different with you. You need me. I just wish Jillian could see that!

Sometimes people can't be cheered up, no matter how much attention they get from a dog.

Unbidden, the sadness I'd felt from Senora washed through me, and I wanted to squirm up to her and lick her palms and make her happy again. Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.

The way he was speaking to me reminded me of the first time Senora called me Toby. I instantly understood what was happening—just as the men had pulled my first family from the culvert, this man had taken me from the grass. And now my life would be what he decided it would be.

Empezaba a pensar que cada vez que me parecía que entendía lo que era la vida, esta cambiaba.

No hay perros malos, Bobby. Solo hay personas malas. Estos solo necesitan amor.

That's what's so wonderful about dogs," her mother said. The car stopped, and Patsy reached an arm back to stroke my head. "His allergies were awful, but he doesn't hold any kind of a grudge, does he? He's trying to tell you not to feel bad. He's forgiven us already. Wouldn't the world be a better place if people forgave each other as easily as dogs do?

Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)

I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing

She learns, after she finishes the job, that she programmed very well the specifications as delivered to her, but that they were deficient. If she had only known the purpose of the program, she could have done it right for the purpose, even though the specifications were deficient.

People generally want to do the right thing, but in a large organization, they frequently don't really understand what is the right thing.

To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.