Seek To Understand Then To Be Understood Quotes

#1. Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. 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

#3. I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood.

Tony Gaskins

#4. I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Dick Gephardt

#5. I've been so afraid of getting closeness wrong, because I don't know how to do it, because I don't know what my mistakes reveal
maybe they reveal very good reasons for my having been unloved as a child, I just don't know.

Helen Oyeyemi

#6. But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily.

Daphne Kalotay

#7. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Stephen R. Covey

#8. A woman will always remain as princess as long as she keeps her childhood innocence and goodwill; a man will always remain as prince as long as he keeps his childhood innocence and goodwill!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.

Seymour Hersh

#10. The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

Amy Tan

#11. Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Josh Shipp

#12. 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

#13. Children and pets are collateral damage in love relationships at war.

Carolyn Moncel

#14. 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

#15. Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.

Unanimous

#16. With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

Rodney Dangerfield

#17. Seek first to understand before being understood.

J. Richard Clarke

#18. 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

#19. Beautiful hills occupied completely by the buildings still look comfortable, because they know that buildings will go in the future and they will be free again!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Seek to understand rather than be understood.

Stephen Covey

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.

Angela Merkel

#24. Grant that I might seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand.

Alisa Statman

#25. You gonna keep her under the stairs like Harry fucking Potter?

Abbi Glines

#26. 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.

#27. God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan