Quotes About Understanding

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

There is nothing wrong with what he said or she said or they did, even though it does not feel good.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.