Quotes About Understanding

You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

Islam means peace.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Peace is our gift to each other.

I play for peace and love.

I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.

My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together... If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.

I think our fans are bigger and better students of Pearl Jam than we are.

I usually get approached by older white ladies of a certain class, with their pearls and, you know, their Talbots on and everything, and they're like, 'We just have to say, we know we're not your demographic, but we love Paper Boi; we really love this show, and we love what you're doing.' It's totally cool.

Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.