I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
Charles BukowskiIt’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.
Joyce MeyerListen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen CoveyI don’t go down the road of condemning.
Joel OsteenIt took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.
Dwayne JohnsonI do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine AlbrightI don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. FeynmanEach has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia WoolfNo matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine AlbrightThe best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. TrumanI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.
Robert GreenePrevious generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry PratchettNo one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsI have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.
Joyce MeyerPeople gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.
Kendrick LamarMy readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
Paulo CoelhoThere are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
Dwayne JohnsonI don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
Alice WalkerA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.
Pope FrancisA psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Carl JungThose who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich NietzschePeople look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Paul AusterTo understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo MachiavelliSo there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
David ByrneWe’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady GagaNo rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
J. ColeI just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
George W. BushThe degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand RussellLove is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne DyerI like criticism. It makes you strong.
LeBron JamesI don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldIf you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Stephen HawkingThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis BaconWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonWide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren BuffettThere is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Richard P. FeynmanThere can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda MeirChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
Jane GoodallTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph AddisonNo man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard ShawTo be social is to be forgiving.
Robert FrostLet us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
Mother TeresaYou must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWe need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaAn idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles DickensWhen I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston ChurchillRomcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
Matthew McConaugheyHe who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
ConfuciusLife is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
HypatiaTrying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon MuskYou can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.
Taylor SwiftHow much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin DisraeliBut by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi MinhA person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNorth Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel CastroIn the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
John C. MaxwellThe less you know, the more you believe.
BonoIf one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert FrostThe hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein