Top 34 Seek To Be Understood Quotes
#1. When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another.
D'Andre Lampkin
#2. Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
Josh Shipp
#3. You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.
T.D. Jakes
#5. Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18
William Irwin
#6. May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
Cory Booker
#7. If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.
Thomas Merton
#8. I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
Takeshi Kitano
#9. Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?
Godfrey
#10. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.
Rosamund Lupton
#13. Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.
Paulo Coelho
#14. I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood.
Tony Gaskins
#15. It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#16. Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Stephen Covey
#17. If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
Alan Moore
#18. Today it happen this, tomorrow who knows what will happen??
Deyth Banger
#19. As St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century said it best, "Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.
Shawn Achor
#20. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is ... Being afraid ... and going on.
Kristin Hannah
#22. The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.
Henry Cloud
#24. If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.
Stephen Covey
#26. Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.
Yayoi Kusama
#27. Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.
Eugene Roe
#28. Grant that I might seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand.
Alisa Statman
#29. I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty."
He chuckled. I wasn't kidding.
Gena Showalter
#30. Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
Tony Scott
#31. You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
James Tiptree Jr.
#32. Hope is the breakfast of champions.
Tom Sturm
#33. I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.
Melina Marchetta
#34. Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.
Unanimous
