Quotes About Understanding

Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

We cannot afford to fight our neighbor, even if we disagree on many things.

We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.

We cannot base our judgment on binaries such as a person's gender.

We cannot stay enveloped in our own reality and turn a blind eye to the plight of others.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

We cannot afford to weaponize race.

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to the country. We need to have greater compassion and understanding and recognize that our similarities are greater than our differences.

I think the most ordinary romance is showing your partner the way you are and leaving behind the things that we cannot understand.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

I Iike listening to people talking. I'm really interested in people's lives and what makes us work, what makes us weak, at times, and things that can make us stronger.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not the same thing as saying they're incompatible. It's just that I think some of the traditional reasons for belief, going back thousands of years, are rather undermined.

You know a guy. You know what's their best pitch. But catching it - that's different.

Other players can be leaders on the pitch, but not all players can understand another player, so I try to. You need to understand the heart of another player. I try to read other people, to figure out how I can joke with this guy, how I can help him or touch his heart.

David Silva at Man City was my favourite player to play with; we had a good understanding on the pitch.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

When you get the relationships right and get to know each other, it really translates onto the pitch.

Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.