Quotes About Understanding

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

Take heart, and be patient; change takes time but it is possible, and it's way more likely if we can reach out and disagree without demonizing.

He instilled in me to be patient and understanding - my father would always hold me accountable, he taught me the importance of following things through, being responsible.

Motherhood hasn't changed me much but the only difference I feel is that I have become more patient.

I have a great dad myself and I hope to be as patient and understanding as he was with me when I was growing up.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

The Klutch Sports Group and the Lakers don't have an issue. Rich Paul and Rob Pelinka don't have an issue. LeBron James and Rob Pelinka don't have an issue. And Jeanie Buss and LeBron James and Rich Paul don't have an issue. It's very simple. Very simple.

Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

In any marriage, it seems, love is when you keep paying attention.

When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.