Quotes About Understanding

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn't. And what I've learned since my retirement, and since becoming directly involved in the world of private equity, points the way to a new career path for thousands of talented senior executives - and a new engine for value creation.

I suspect that among parents or siblings of a person with autism there are higher rates of talents in systemizing.

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

They talk most who have the least to say.

I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as one of Michelangelo's pupils might study his.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they'll be surprised once they do 'come out' how many other people have had similar experiences.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?