Elia M. Ramollah Quotes

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

I just can't help but see things differently.

You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

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.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

I 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.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Understanding is a two-way street.

No two people see things the same way.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.