Quotes about Understanding

create a bond through some shared interest by telling them something about yourself?

PRINCIPLE 1—Become genuinely interested in other people. PRINCIPLE 2—Smile. PRINCIPLE 3—Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. PRINCIPLE 4—Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. PRINCIPLE 5—Talk in terms of the other person's interests. PRINCIPLE 6—Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely.

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

I am going to meet people today who talk too much—people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn't imagine a world without such people.

always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

Confusion is the chief cause of worry.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all." As Dr. Johnson said: "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?

Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.

Much of our problem is not, as is often said, that we have failed to get what is in our head down in our heart. Much of what hinders us is that we have had a lot of mistaken theology in our head and it has gotten down into our heart. And it is controlling our inner dynamics so that the head and heart cannot, even with the aid of the Word and the Spirit, pull one another straight.