Ben Horowitz Quotes

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

Examine other points of view as if they were your own.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

What hermeneutics teaches is that progress comes from being exposed to different points of views because there's no point of view that is right for all situations and all times. And even if it's superior to the others, you can enrich it by drawing on others or thinking: "Why is that wrong and how do I improve my approach? How do I come up with a better approach?" So that's essential for innovation just like it is in technology.

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.

We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.