Quotes About Understanding

When we look at such boy play through the adult lens of violence, we miss the opportunity to use it as a window into a boy's hidden emotions.

But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

Joint attention and common ground, both personal and cultural, constitute the necessary intersubjective infrastructure for many other uniquely human activities.

Conversations may thus be seen as a kind of "joint attention to mental content" (O'Madagain and Tomasello, forthcoming).

If you say, 'I really love this girl except for this one thing--if I could just change this one thing, then everything would be perfect,' then you've already lost her.

A hundred years ago behavior was explained by one shelf of books, now it's explained by a different shelf of books, and in a hundred years they'll explain it differently again.

rooted in 'the forgetting of Being'.

Enframing describes our narrow, restricted understanding of ourselves and all things in existence in terms of 'resources' to be organized, enhanced and exploited efficiently.

I know that no matter how liberal or progressive I profess to be, no matter how successfully, how diligently I seek to be enlightened and nuanced in my understanding of the world and those around me, I know that there still is a tiny, virulent nugget, a germ of prejudice that exists deep within me — the product of those stereotypes and awful jokes of childhood and adolescence, and that it must always be powerfully held at bay by reason, understanding and love.

But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.

Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.

He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down.

success of the speech confirmed the Jared and Ivanka strategy: look for common ground. It also confirmed Ivanka's understanding of her father: he just wanted to be loved. And, likewise, it confirmed Bannon's worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

It was, said Walsh, "like trying to figure out what a child wants.

The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.

he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

he had an almost autistic level of unresponsiveness;

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts. --from the book For Reasons Unknown

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

But evidence is all around you." "The world is all around me. Some parts I understand, some I don't. Some the scientists do, some they don't. It exists. That only proves it exists." "I don't understand how you can look at the world and say there's no God." "And I don't know how you can look at the world and pretend you know there's a God and what he wants. So we're even.