Quotes About Understanding

When confronting someone, refrain from using the words always or never. When you say to someone: "You always…" or "You never…," the other person is going to focus more on that one word

You don't want your opening statement to sound like an attack the other person's character, so always begin with an "I" phrase:

Sample Phrases of Apology Offer a phrase of apology whenever you feel it will encourage empathy between the other person and you.

Let's talk about this. I need to know why it happened and how we can keep it from happening again." "Can we talk about what happened?" "I feel that we need to talk this out so it doesn't happen again.

Let's go somewhere in private and try to resolve this." "Let's talk this over and find a suitable compromise." "I'd like to hear how you saw the situation so that I better understand.

Here's how you see the issue: ________. And here's how I see it: ________. Let's see where we can come together on this." "Since we don't agree why this happened, let's lay out the facts and come up with a solution we both can live with.

Why don't we each state our viewpoints? Then we'll see if we can find common ground." "We need to resolve this somehow. The only way to do that is for each of us to be flexible and try to come together.

To me it wasn't trivial. Do you have a few minutes now? I'd like to talk this over and find an agreeable solution. (compromise) Let's go into the conference room where we can talk in private." After closing the door, Kate said: "Why don't we try to look at the situation from each other's viewpoint? That may help us find an agreeable solution." (compromise)

I value our working relationship…. Going forward I feel we'll be able to work through any problem." "I'm glad we talked this out…. Now I'm confident we can work through any problem.

That's because your words convey your message, but your actions convey the feelings and emotions behind it.

Vince replied: "If you meant that as a joke, I now have a better understanding of where you were coming from. (understanding) And, my understanding is that your idea of joking is to call someone out in front of other people." Mark shrugged and laughed uneasily.

Compassion can be learned through example.

We are all at different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in getting someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you

Your relationship with others is your relationship with yourself: mirrored back to you.

It turned out that every single child on the school bus had known that one of their Kevins was missing. They had not mentioned it to the driver, or their teacher, or each other. They took it that Kevin had been left, forever, for some reason, which would become clear to them, with patience, in the course of time.

in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it.

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

believe we can carry both the pain of the victim and the truth of the accused without doing disservice to either.

guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)