Being Understood Quotes

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive negotiator: being understood is actually more important to them than actually making the deal.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

We talk a lot about our identities, and we talk a lot about working to clear misconceptions about those identities. But it'd be really cool to see someone like myself not even have to talk about being Muslim or Egyptian, because it's just understood. We can all just be weird and not have to explain everything.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

It's a human instinct to be known.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

I don't think the idea of being seen changes in its importance. I think it's always true. When relationships start to have problems, it's almost always because we don't feel seen by that person anymore.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear.

When my friends and family call me Josie, it feels like I'm being seen. It's something everyone wants, to feel understood.