Quotes About Understanding

I can't tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don't know the background of the investor.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.

Care and pity are two different things.

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

I do hate air conditioning and early mornings, but my friends all know this and plan accordingly.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.