Quotes About Understanding

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western eyes, using Western concepts. If you want to know why we unerringly seem to get China wrong... this is the reason.

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.

I think being sensitive gives you powers. You get the logic and the flexibility of emotions.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

If you think about the practical difficulties of having a relationship with somebody on the other side of the world, it defies all logic.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.

Coaching is definitely different. I've got the knowledge but it's about communicating that to others in a manner they can understand. There's an art to that and the more you practise, the better you get.

Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.