Quotes About Understanding

We do not live this life to build a monument to ourselves, but to pass our understanding of life on to those who come behind us so that their stories can be even more meaningful than ours.

If you don't love somebody, it gets annoying when they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them you get pleasure from their pleasure, and it makes it easy to serve. I didn't love God because I didn't know God.

After reading this paragraph, they suddenly know what's been troubling them, how to overcome whatever has been troubling them, and what steps they need to take to move forward. Their world, as it relates to your product and service, now makes sense.

WHEN YOU FEEL CONFUSED, CLARIFY YOUR MESSAGE

In the churches I used to go to, I felt like I didn't fit in... I was accepted but not understood. There was room at the table for me, but I was not part of the family.

WE'RE ALL AMATEURS WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE and relationships. I

One of the biggest hindrances to business success is that we think customers can read our minds.

God has never withheld love to teach me a lesson.

What we think we are saying to our customers and what our customers actually hear are two different things. And customers make buying decisions not based on what we say but on what they hear.

the most powerful tool we can use to organize information so people don't have to burn very many calories is story.

Why? Because she stated the problem she solves before she stated the solution (her service.)

the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.

blob of a desire that is so vague, potential customers can't figure out why they need it in the first place.

Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.

He was making potential customers burn too many mental calories to figure out how he was going to help them survive and thrive.

all relationships move through three stages. And, these stages cannot be rushed. The stages of a relationship are:         1.    Curiosity         2.    Enlightenment         3.    Commitment

YOU DON'T KNOW a story is happening to you when you're in it.

Strong Relationships Are the Key

Sometimes understanding other people's problems is the key to finding opportunities.

means seeing both sides of the story and working towards a mutually beneficial situation for everyone.

I get it," he said. "I was supposed to give you your space. I didn't want to. So...I compromised. Only, you frustrate the hell out of me, and I'm all done with being frustrated. This is what I wanted to do. Pretty much from the moment we stopped doing it. You?" She was still reeling, from the kiss, and the declaration. "Me, yes. Uh, too. Me, too." "Good." Then he kissed her again.**

I didn't mean to hurt you. -You shouldnae have been able to. She blinked at that, but knew what he meant. -I suppose not, no. we're still strangers. More or less. -Only in the measure of time could we consider ourselved that. (Graham & Katie) Some Like It Scot

I guess it's about trust. Trusting what you feel. Trusting the person who inspired those feelings with the weight of them and all they could mean.

It's convenient for us to think that the nasty emotions, hate and anger, can adhere to the lower orders, as if they owned them by right. So that leaves us, not surprisingly, to lay claim to love and joy and all those highsouled things.' He'd tried to protest, but she'd cut him short with a gesture. 'They love, the stupid and the dull and the crude, quite as strongly as we do. They just can't dress their emotions up in pretty words the way we do.