Quotes About Understanding

Za svakoga imamo razumijevanja osim za svoje najbliže, smatramo da nam njihova vjernost prirodno pripada, kao vlastita koža.

Prijateljstvo se ne stvara, ono nastaje, kao i ljubav.

Žena više voli nježnu rije?, makar bila i glupa, nego pametnu, ako je gruba.

I had been generalizing about the world so much that I began to lose my grasp of it.

Tajna se duže pamti nego jasna istina.

Teško ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle razli?ito. - Lako ?e se sporazumeti dva ?ovjeka koji misle.

i shvatio sam kako ?ovjek može lako da posegne za gruboš?u ako nije dorastao nekome.

Znaš li šta sam mislio dok si govorio? Kako neki ljudi mogu da kažu sve što ho?e, i možeš da primiš ili ne primiš, ostaješ miran. A neki u jesnu rije? unesu sebe, i odjednom se sve zažari, niko ne ostaje miran. Osjetimo da se nešto važno dešava.

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što pre?utiš, znao sam za tu mudrost kad mi nije bila potrebna.

Slušalac je babica u teškom poro?aju re?i. Ili nešto još važnije. Ako taj drugi želi da razume.

Ovo je drugi svijet, dalek i nerazumljiv. U?inili su, i gotovo! U?inili su, i šta treba o tome pri?ati? Mi prosti ljudi volimo da sladimo i preživamo ono što doživamo. Oni djeluju i zaboravljaju.

Najteže je objasniti ono što je najjednostavnije.

A great business of body and heart seemed to join these women, and only a few questions separated them: Did each understand the rules of womanhood? Did she try to follow them? How hard did she try, and what did it cost her?

Complexity is a sign of intelligence. Simplicity is a sign of wisdom

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

We are professionally admonished to freeze many of our ordinary human instincts, to distance ourselves from too much personal knowledge of or contact with the people we write about, lest we endanger our objectivity or adulterate our product with an excess of understanding of their behavior or, God forbid, sympathy.

Just because someone isn't at their best doesn't mean you write them off forever" -Pen

Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is not necessary to sympathize with the writer, to agree with what he's written. But it is necessary to walk alongside and stay in step. It's harder, he says, when the other person has a bad limp or stops and starts all the time or moves erratically. It is hardest of all when the story comes from a place the translator himself can't go.

I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.

Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things. Sometimes the loneliness of being the odd man out in these conversation got to me but most of the time I just ignored it. I like old movies. She talks to dogs.

Eck tilts his head and gently licks Bob's ear with his long, sticky tongue. It is his special way of expressing sympathy and it is not effective.