Quotes About Understanding

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me.

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

Look beyond what you see.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.