Quotes About Understanding

On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.

It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to- that is what they must do.

Two items from two different suppliers met the specifications, yet they were sufficiently different for one to be usable, the other usable only with costly rework, a heavy loss to the plant. The explanation was that one supplier understood what the blocks were to be used for , the other did not - he mere satisfied the specifications.

I could do a much better job (fewer mistakes) if I knew what the program is to be used for. The specifications don't tell me what I need to know (programmer).

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.

I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving allBut will his negative inversion, be prodigal.

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a windowOr just walking dully along.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

for once in our lives / Everything became a You and nothing was an It.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Primero tienes que aprender a caminar. Después aprenderás a danzar. Luego se aprende a detenerla danza, para poder mirar bien al danzarín. La Única Vida no es mas que una danza, y hay que aprender a sentir sus movimientos antes de poder comprenderla.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.