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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. -- Carlos Fuentes
Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise. -- Laozi
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. -- Emile M. Cioran
Knowing yourself lets you understand others. -- Jenny Holzer
Understand yourself first to understand others. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. -- Katherine Mansfield
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding. -- Miyamoto Musashi
To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines. -- Rod McKuen
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better. -- Jerry Brown
What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. -- Carlos Fuentes
Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others. -- Confucius
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. -- Katherine Mansfield
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you -- Martha Beck
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. -- Martha Beck
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense. -- John C. Maxwell
If you want to know yourself, Just look how others do it; If you want to understand others, Look into your own heart. What is life without the radiance of love? -- Friedrich Schiller
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others. -- Vanna Bonta
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ. -- Carlos H. Amado
When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily. -- Stephen Covey
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves. -- Dhani Jones
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well. -- Katherine Mansfield
Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work. -- Myles Munroe
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs. -- George Gilder
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. -- Gilbert Parker
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not. -- Gene Tierney
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy. -- Audrey Tautou
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure. -- Cate Blanchett
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. -- Ian Mcewan
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. -- Ivan Turgenev
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. -- Billy Joel
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. -- William Hurt
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. -- Sarah Gadon
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. -- Lord Northcliffe
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. -- Martin Scorsese
Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands. -- Om Puri
The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability. -- Daniel Kahneman
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. -- Jennifer Beals
We should strive to understand the weakness of others. -- Ellen G. White
We often hate others because we fail to understand them. -- Debasish Mridha
The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others. -- Henry Ford
Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself. -- Albert Einstein
Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment. -- Abhishek Shukla
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others. -- Nhat Hanh
When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do? -- Carson McCullers
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them. -- Adrienne von Speyr
Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others. -- Napoleon Hill
The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. -- Jean Decety
A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others. -- Ignatius of Loyola
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. -- Bernard Williams
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others. -- Tariq Ramadan
It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. -- Scott Berkun
When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
All that the socialists understand about money is the fact that they want it from others. -- Konrad Adenauer
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well. -- Evan Esar
There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care. -- Rudyard Kipling
You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others. -- John Searle
It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know. -- Simon Sinek
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others. -- Dalai Lama
I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others. -- Jen Lancaster
I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others. -- Jen Lancaster
Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it. -- Indira Gandhi
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. -- Henry Mitchell
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. -- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care. -- Rob Jackson
So the Warrior fights the Good Fight and he helps others, even though he does not quite understand why. -- Paulo Coelho
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. -- Washington Irving
Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. -- Jay Woodman
I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others. -- Jonathan Tisch
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others. -- John C. Maxwell
Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand. -- Oswald Chambers
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. -- Ben Mezrich
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning. -- Saint Augustine
Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others. -- Ken Danby
Just because others don't understand your journey doesn't mean you're not on the right one. After all, it is YOURS! -- Michele Jennae
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it. -- John C. Maxwell
For one to gain wisdom one most first overcome emotions and understand it's causes and effects on others and yourself. -- Nicholas Lopez
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. -- John P. Kotter
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. -- Martha Beck
For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people. -- Chath Piersath
Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me. -- Dan John
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. -- Matthieu Ricard
It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others. -- Jim Butcher
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust. -- John Green
It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them. -- Wilferd Peterson
You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself. -- Laozi
Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us -- Tony Robbins
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. -- Ava Gardner
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit. -- Dorothy Height
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. -- Jack Bowman
I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible. -- Christopher
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes. -- Scott Simon
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. -- William Hazlitt
When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others -- Jane Nelsen
Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me. -- Abraham Lincoln
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. -- Francis Lockier
I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others. -- Mary E. DeMuth
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. -- Sheri L. Dew
One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal. -- Wolfgang Beltracchi
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene. -- Al Pacino
The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others. -- Zig Ziglar
Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them. -- Amit Kalantri
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. -- Peter L. Berger
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. -- Saul Bellow
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know. -- Umberto Eco
Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions. -- Tim Brown
When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Fulfill your needs not useless desires, which comes from looking at others. Look at yourself you will always happy. Understand your inner desire which comes from within. -- Abhinav Rajput
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge... -- George Soros
People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote. -- John Lewis
As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before. -- Chip Ingram
I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family. -- Corey Taylor

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