Quotes About Understanding

If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I think sex appeal is something that's fun. But I'd guess any man with any conscious consideration or understanding of his own sex appeal is one of the least sexy men you might meet.

Philosophy was once considered science.

I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians. But I do have to know where they're coming from.

I am a people's person. I consume people.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship.

We need to listen to consumers' needs.

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.