Quotes about Understanding

Principle of making what is important to the other person as important to you as the other person is to you.

Just listen and seek to understand.

To relate effectively with a wife, a husband, children, friends, or working associates, we must learn to listen. And this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice.

The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Go out with your spouse on a regular basis. Have dinner or do something together you both enjoy. Listen to each other; seek to understand.

We know and accept this fact or principle of process in the area of physical things, but to understand it in emotional areas, in human relations, and even in the area of personal character is less common and more difficult. And

it's so important whenever you come into a new situation to get all the expectations out on the table.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

I am convinced we will discover and rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

Through deep thought and the exercise of faith and prayer, we began to see our son in terms of his own uniqueness.