Quotes About Understanding

Whenever he met him or saw him sitting somewhere - he felt only the sentiment that is generally termed tolerance: a very lukewarm emotional stew of disgust, contempt, and sympathy.

Ä°nsan bu konuda ne kadar çok ÅŸey bilirse, geçerli tek bir söz bile söyleyebilmesi de o ölçüde zorla??yor.

It feels so good to be loved," Murphy said. "How would ye know?" said Paddy. "I hear things and have a good imagination," he said.

I've heard that the way to someone's heart is through their stomach. It's not the only way, although you do have to make sure to go to your right and toward the head. And it does save the trouble of having to crack open the rib cage.

I've always said that you should walk a mile in a man's shoes before you judged him. That way, you have his shoes and a good head start.

Do things my way and we'll get along just fine.

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

I've lived long enough - Stonehenge and me - that I've learned even when folks do spiteful things, they have a reason. Often when I know the reason, their actions make sense. It doesn't make them right, but it does make sense; and when I understand, I tend to be less critical and more compassionate.

Enhancing the input

when learners focus primarily on meaning, they may not be able to also pay attention to the sounds that make up the words.

learners sometimes fail to notice certain language forms—grammatical morphemes, vocabulary words, syntactic patterns, pragmatic features—when their focus is on understanding meaning.

learners who were given pronunciation lessons emphasizing stress and rhythm were judged to be easier to understand than learners who received lessons focused on individual sounds.

Know how to recognize a meaningful experience when we see it.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone?

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.

Smile for me, Patti, as I am smiling for you.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.