understood Quotes

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Socialism is easily understood by any child. It is taking other people's stuff.

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.