Quotes About Understanding

I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. except with talking, it's more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, and maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you're touching around in the brain, But the patient, she keeps jumping and saying ow.

We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as strangers-for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.

I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it.

People want to forget. You can't blame them.

All the nations involved in the war used what we might call propaganda to change their citizens' moods. What is the line between art and propaganda? Art is, after all, supposed to affect our mood, is supposed to win us over to some understanding. And "propaganda" is often just what we call another nation's pride of country.

I won't remember you standing there bored by my bedside as I slur words, standing there waiting to feel like you've stayed long enough so that you're a good person and you're allowed to leave.

Parece reconhecer-se muito mais facilmente o fogo depois de domesticado.

Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.

Freinds are those whom we do it.

Dac? î?i în?elegi orgoliul, acesta dispare în mod natural. Dac? î?i în?elegi nefericirea, aceasta dispare la rândul ei. Dac? î?i în?elegi temerile, acestea se evapor?. Dac? î?i în?elegi ata?amentele, acestea dispar, iar ceea ce r?mâne în final este libertatea.

aprendí que nuestra mente consta de tres partes: el superconsciente, el consciente y el subconsciente.

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

Não te irrites se te pagarem mal um benefício: antes cair das nuvens, que de um terceiro andar.

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

Those academics books that makes you feel like you ain't good enough, they were written by a human being like you. You not stupid for failing, you just not understanding someone else's point of view and it is normal not to understand someone's point of view

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence and substance thereof, and proceed no farther while any savour or relish remains in the passage: when this subsides, pick up your book again and proceed as before, seldom reading more than half a page at a time, for it is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that yields us profit.

Like Nana was fond of saying, you might not remember what someone said, but you'll always remember how it made you feel.

Ricky Let's drop it. Let's ecks-nay on the becks-nay. Ig-pay atlin-lay. Bobby Will you ut-shay your outh-may Ricky Ayn-saying-ay Bobby I don't know, you're doing it wrong, I don't understand what the hell you're saying. Ricky Onch-pay oo-bay ... ay-bay ay-way Bobby Ut-shay your ace-fay, asshole-ay. Ricky Did you hear that Did you hear what he said Whadaya think of that

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.

There is much in life that is complicated and beyond our understanding, but the basic principles of human liberty are not so complicated, and if we hold to them, we will find a way to correct our mistakes and set a true course

If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do