Dionne Bromfield Quotes

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.

There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.

I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself.

When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'