Quotes About Understanding

The slow blossoming of a notable career is sometimes a matter of a talent finding its way. Sometimes it's a matter of audiences coming into a gradual understanding of who that talent is, and sometimes it's a combination of both. The important thing is that the opportunities are there for this interchange to take place. Not only does it make for more and better actresses, but it provides an environment for completely original and distinct talents to emerge...

I never knew how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.

Don't bargain and negotiate for everything in life. It may help build businesses but it may not work while building relationships. Give freely in relationships don't scrutinize, let go with love and simply MickeyMize.

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

It is my job as an investigative psychologist to try to decipher the serial killer's particular fantasy from his crime scene. The fantasy will point to the fixation which will give us a key to understanding the killer we are investigating. The better we understand him, the more likely we are to catch him.

One does not have to be raped to acquire empathy for a rape victim. I did not have to kill to understand why others do, but I had to go through some harrowing experiences in order to understand.

a good profiler, who truly wants to understand the serial killer, must have been prepared by life experiences before he or she can dare to venture into the abyss. A person who has led a protected life will not survive.

I understand serial killers' emptiness.

For him, art is the only possible way of understanding and knowing the world. Reality only becomes meaningful when it is re-created in art. Language possesses a sheer-magical power that allows the writer to create and to conquer time.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Little said is soon amended.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.