Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.

One of my ongoing messages is the importance of families not being polarized. It's important to talk about routines and bring everything into the middle and not to one extreme or another.

I think as a police officer when you're dealing with a member of the public you put something on because you have to appear to be this person who knows what they're talking about, and of course you're also trying to figure out the Rubik's cube of why people behave in the way that they do.

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.

Animosity is not a policy.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.

There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.

I'm very passionate about political issues, but I also think that listening to people who disagree is extremely important, and I try to build that into my teaching, sometimes by co-teaching with rightwing colleagues.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

Political party doesn't matter to me.