Quotes & Sayings About Seeking First To Understand Then To Be Understood

Happy birthday", I whispered. — E.L. James

Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh? — S.M. Stirling

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. — Chloe Sevigny

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving
for so I knew it to be
the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read ... — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours. — Catherine Drinker Bowen

If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life. — Akemi G

It was a shitshow of emotional carnage, just pure tear-soaked chaos worse than any Grey's Anatomy episode. — Karina Halle

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats. — Dee Dee Ramone

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. — Erykah Badu

You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth. — Jack Nicholson

I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward. — Brian Evenson

Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else. — Thomas Dubay