Quotes About Understanding

As a general rule, people in their 20s want to learn on the job. In their 30s they want to advance. And in their 40s they want to rule. No matter what their age, though, understanding their desires is like trying to pin down mercury.

Frances Hesselbine knows that listening is a two-part maneuver. There's the part where we actually listen. And there's the part where we speak. Speaking establishes how we are perceived as a listener. What we say is proof of how well we listen. They are two sides of the same coin.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there. My experience tells me that the only effective approach is looking people in the eye and saying, "If you want to change, do this.

It's an interesting equation: Less me. More them. Equals success.

Stop Asking for Feedback and Then Expressing Your Opinion

If you walk into the examining room with a broken leg, the doctor doesn't pass judgment on how you broke your leg. He doesn't care if you broke your leg committing a crime or kicking the dog or tripping down the stairs or getting hit by a car. He only cares about fixing your leg.

There is never anyone in the other boat. When we are angry, we are screaming at an empty vessel.

getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

We're thinking too much about educating the mind, and forgetting about the heart and soul.

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.

Mirar, escuchar: ponerse en modo esponja. Nunca deja de maravillarme el privilegio de que personas me cuenten sus historias, sus vidas; nunca deja de sorprenderme la cantidad de cosas que tantas personas pueden contarte si te ven dispuesto a escucharlas.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.