Understand Quotes

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People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us. — Rachel Corrie
We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were… — Roger Ebert
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of… — Sam Vaknin
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're… — Stephen Covey
Seek to understand rather than be understood. — Stephen Covey
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul… — Stephen Covey
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us.… — Nhat Hanh
We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it… — Nhat Hanh
It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation… — Barack Obama
How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations… — Unknown Author
Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with… — Kathryn Erskine
If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple… — Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And… — William Macneile Dixon
One of the significant facts about the moment of birth is that it is an unconscious moment. No one ever knows when he is being… — Sterling W Sill
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think… — Stephen King
When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation… — Zig Ziglar
We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen. — Unknown Author
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite.… — Unknown Author
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as… — Paul Gallico
All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to… — Paul Tillich
One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives… — Stephen Covey
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do… — Nhat Hanh
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening. — Stephen Covey
When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated. — David A. Cooper

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