Quotes About Understanding

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.