Quotes about Try to Understand

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. Votes: 4

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way. Votes: 4

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. Votes: 4

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful. Votes: 4

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. Votes: 4

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. Votes: 4

We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand. Votes: 3

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day. Votes: 3

Before you hate something you should try to understand it. Votes: 3

Before believing, find the truth; before accepting, try to understand. Votes: 3

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand. Votes: 3

It's Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don't try to understand it. Just roll with it. Votes: 3

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. Votes: 3

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do. Votes: 3

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary. Votes: 3

I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better. Votes: 3

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. Votes: 3

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say. Votes: 3

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain. Votes: 3

It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love. Votes: 3

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! Votes: 3

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? Votes: 3

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy. Votes: 3

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. Votes: 3

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. Votes: 3

You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive. Votes: 3

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. Votes: 3

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. Votes: 3

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. Votes: 3

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it. Votes: 3

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies Votes: 3

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. Votes: 3

Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face. Votes: 3

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. Votes: 3

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason. Votes: 3

I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. Votes: 3

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it. Votes: 3

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy. Votes: 3

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. Votes: 3

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems. Votes: 3

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. Votes: 3

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost. Votes: 3

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. Votes: 3

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan. Votes: 3

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are. Votes: 3

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul. Votes: 3

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work. Votes: 3

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work. Votes: 3

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy. Votes: 3

I am not the best :( but try to understand, this world is samll to swallow my thoughts :') , you let me free and find my world :'D Votes: 3

The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect. Votes: 3

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me. Votes: 3

I try to understand faith and religion. I was raised by wonderful Catholic parents who were deeply faithful and taught us that God is a God of love. Votes: 3

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. Votes: 3

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center. Votes: 3

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react. Votes: 3

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate. Votes: 3

The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere. Votes: 3

Always try to understand and educate yourselves on the reasons why Allah has given you life, do that part first then enjoy the rest of life and chill out. Votes: 3

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be. Votes: 3

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. Votes: 3

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence. Votes: 3

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own "”" "That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore. Votes: 3

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. Votes: 3

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit. Votes: 3

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating. Votes: 3

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. Votes: 3

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. Votes: 3

My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done. Votes: 3

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. Votes: 3

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems. Votes: 3

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world. Votes: 3

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing. Votes: 3

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other. Votes: 3

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. Votes: 3

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did. Votes: 3

My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world. Votes: 3

I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive. Votes: 3

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship. Votes: 3

Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain. Votes: 3

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known. Votes: 3

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. Votes: 3

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions. Votes: 3

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say. Votes: 3

You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than both of them and, for all our rationality, our rules and laws, our baser drives are still straight out of the jungle." Votes: 3

I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have been trying for so long and we're not getting very far. But I do want to try to understand it better, and I want to make some forward movement. Votes: 3

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react. Votes: 3

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. Votes: 3

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. Votes: 3

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty. Votes: 3

Trying to understand women is a tall order period. Votes: 2

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens. Votes: 2

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. Votes: 2

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. Votes: 2

The real business of life is trying to understand each other. Votes: 2

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising. Votes: 2

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. Votes: 2

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. Votes: 2

I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better. Votes: 2

I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious. Votes: 2

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. Votes: 2

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. Votes: 2

Trying 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. Votes: 2

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. Votes: 2

Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible. Votes: 0

Try to understand long before you move to judgment. Votes: 0

Try to understand, analyze and find the truth before believing. Votes: 0

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Votes: 0

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. Votes: 0

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. Votes: 0

If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, Votes: 0

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original Votes: 0

I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!" Votes: 0

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me! Votes: 0

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves. Votes: 0

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light. Votes: 0

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another. Votes: 0

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand. Votes: 0

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand. Votes: 0

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully. Votes: 0

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me? Votes: 0

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. Votes: 0

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back. Votes: 0

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life. Votes: 0

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better. Votes: 0

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing. Votes: 0

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else. Votes: 0

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back. Votes: 0

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. Votes: 0

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside. Votes: 0

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it. Votes: 0

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas. Votes: 0

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate. Votes: 0

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune. Votes: 0

When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us. Votes: 0

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people. Votes: 0

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord. Votes: 0

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. Votes: 0

Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man. What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand. Votes: 0

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about. Votes: 0

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam. Votes: 0

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language. Votes: 0

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. Votes: 0

This is kind of hard to understand, but sometimes you can try so hard at something.Sometimes you can be so prepared, and still fail. Votes: 0

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand. Votes: 0

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists. Votes: 0

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. Votes: 0

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life. Votes: 0

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that. Votes: 0

I sign autographs and try to be as nice to people as possible, and I do pretty well with that. I understand the importance of it. Votes: 0

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself Votes: 0

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world. Votes: 0

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. Votes: 0

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. Votes: 0

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris) Votes: 0

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try. Votes: 0

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different. Votes: 0

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you. Votes: 0

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going. Votes: 0

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try. Votes: 0

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try. Votes: 0

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand? Votes: 0

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. Votes: 0

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't. Votes: 0

I try to not overthink anything. I don't understand why nipples are nudity. Who cares? Men can show their nipples but if we have breasts we can't show them? Votes: 0

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations Votes: 0

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things. Votes: 0