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Quotes About Understanding

Talk to people, not above them.
~ John C. Maxwell
It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
~ Francis Bacon
They have most likely said it because they have an unmet need.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.
~ Allen W. Wood
Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.
~ Rigoberto González
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
~ Stephen Covey
it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
~ Barack Obama
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
~ Peter Drucker
Silence is also a form of speaking.
~ Herta Muller
The altitude of any relation is possible through discourse.
~ Unarine Ramaru
The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.
~ Benjamin Meadows
It's not about the language, it's about the message
~ Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.
~ Nina Hartley
To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.
~ Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
You Need To Gauge, To Engage.
~ Syed Sharukh
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.
~ Eugene Wigner
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
~ John Searle
Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.
~ John Paul Caponigro
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.
~ Edward Boyden
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.
~ Marjorie Garber
You can and must understand computers now.
~ Ted Nelson