Quotes About Understanding

Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story." —Fred Rogers

German poet Herman Hesse wrote, "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." I agree with his viewpoint.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Any married man should forget his mistakes—there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

experience alone does not add value to a life. It's not necessarily experience that is valuable; it's the insight people gain because of their experience. Reflective

What's the key to relating to others? It's putting yourself in someone else's place instead of putting them in their place.

communication comes from the Latin word communis, meaning "common.

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it." —Stephen Covey

Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.

people knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision.

When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.

the entire population of the world—with one minor exception—is composed of others.

If you're going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.

A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

If you want to get your message across, you have to learn how to communicate in someone else's world.