Quotes About Understanding

When you push people where they don't want to be pushed, you will face even more resistance.

To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.

compassion is the key no matter what the line of work you are in.

True learning only occurs when you assimilate and apply the new information—when there is a change in your behavior.

A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. —Jack Canfield and Peter Chee

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. As a professional salesperson, you can't satisfy those needs unless you know what they are and appreciate the person who has them

Situational awareness, Reece.

When the men and women on both sides love their children more than they hate their enemies, then maybe this can stop.

The first rule of trading—there are probably many first rules—is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

Unlike animals, who react to stimuli but cannot think of rational explanations for them, humans have the ability to change their behavior by understanding causes, circumstances, and solutions.

Psychology, above all, is applying human understanding in a scientific manner. . . . The only profession I have ever encountered which separates the role of a human being from his professional activity," he declared, "was the role of the SS man.

Guys are open books; wives can read them without breaking a sweat. They're just little boys who love being bad.

I didn't know that love is not about what we do, but who we are, convincing others of our love for them...and about who loves us.

And when you're strong, you can't convince people of your love for them.

They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.' --Mom (Fran)

Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

She knew it happened, but now that it had happened and to people near her, she couldn't even absorb it enough to fear it thoroughly.