Sharon Creech Quotes

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

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

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

If you would judge, understand.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

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

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

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.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

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.

Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.