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“Both were silent, but the very way in which they were silent, in which they were sitting together, was expressive of confidential intimacy; each of them seemed not even to be thinking of his companion, while secretly rejoicing in his presence.”
Ivan Turgenev
Silence
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Intimacy
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Friendship
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Presence
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Understanding
2.
“Both men felt uncomfortable. Each knew the other understood him. That kind of knowledge is agreeable for friends, and for enemies very disagreeable, especially when they can’t either have it out or separate.”
Ivan Turgenev
Friendship
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Tension
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Understanding
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Enemies
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Unspoken
3.
“A man is capable of understanding everything – how the ether vibrates and what happens on the sun. But to understand how another man can blow his nose differently from the way he blows his own is something beyond his capability.”
Ivan Turgenev
Understanding
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Irony
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Humanity
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Science
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Complexity
4.
“A man’s capable of understanding anything – how the ether vibrates, and what’s going on in the sun – but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he’s incapable of understanding.”
Ivan Turgenev
Mind
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Ego
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Understanding
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Complexity
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Irony
5.
“Maybe you’re right; maybe it’s true that every person is a puzzle.”
Ivan Turgenev
Identity
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Mystery
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People
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Complexity
,
Understanding
6.
“However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”
Ivan Turgenev
Nature
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Mystery
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Human Limits
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Silence
,
Understanding
7.
“Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.”
Andrew Carnegie
Wisdom
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Society
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Knowledge
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Understanding
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Trust
8.
“I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated mechanism – man.”
Andrew Carnegie
Humanity
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Understanding
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Technology
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Curiosity
,
Wisdom
9.
“Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.”
Andrew Carnegie
Emotion
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Connection
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Influence
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Communication
,
Understanding
10.
“One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.”
Guy Kawasaki
Understanding
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Influence
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Communication
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Psychology
,
Connection
11.
“I could never hate anyone I knew.”
Charles Lamb
Understanding
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Experience
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Judgment
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Relationships
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Compassion
12.
“The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: “I hate that man.” “But you don’t know him.” “Of course, I don’t,” said Lamb. “Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?””
Charles Lamb
Prejudice
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Judgment
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Understanding
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Perception
,
Experience
13.
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
Margaret Fuller
Nature
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Exceptions
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Rules
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Balance
,
Understanding
14.
“Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.”
Margaret Fuller
Natural
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Growth
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Understanding
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Experience
,
Development
15.
“As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.”
Margaret Fuller
Marriage
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Love
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Relationship
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Freedom
,
Understanding
16.
“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.”
Margaret Fuller
Nature
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Understanding
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Simplicity
,
Learning
,
Serenity
17.
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
Margaret Fuller
Dreamer
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Reality
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Imagination
,
Understanding
,
Vision
18.
“All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.”
Margaret Fuller
Expression
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Perception
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Simplicity
,
Understanding
,
Appreciation
19.
“The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.”
Steven Wright
Friendship
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Connection
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Silence
,
Understanding
,
Comfort
20.
“Curiosity + Patience = Clarity”
Ankur Warikoo
Curiosity
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Patience
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Clarity
,
Understanding
,
Growth
21.
“It’s easy to gossip about a colleague. It’s the right thing to understand their point of view.”
Ankur Warikoo
Gossip
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Understanding
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Empathy
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Integrity
,
Relationships
22.
“Most people don't want their problems to be solved by you. They just want to be heard by you.”
Ankur Warikoo
Listening
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Empathy
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Support
,
Understanding
,
Presence
23.
“To understand the world: read. To understand yourself: write.”
Ankur Warikoo
Reading
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Writing
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Understanding
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Self-discovery
,
Knowledge
24.
“If you truly know yourself, you will be able to know anyone else, through your own self.”
Ankur Warikoo
Self-knowledge
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Understanding
,
Empathy
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Identity
,
Connection
25.
“At times all you need to know is that you are not alone in feeling what you are feeling.”
Ankur Warikoo
Connection
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Emotions
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Validation
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Comfort
,
Understanding
26.
“To understand others: read To understand yourself: write”
Ankur Warikoo
Reading
,
Writing
,
Understanding
,
Self-awareness
,
Empathy
27.
“If you invest in something you don’t understand because others are doing it, it is not called investing. It is called FOMO!”
Ankur Warikoo
Investment
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Understanding
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FOMO
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Choice
,
Wisdom
28.
“If it can’t be explained in written, it can never be explained in spoken.”
Ankur Warikoo
Clarity
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Communication
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Writing
,
Understanding
,
Expression
29.
“Respect >> Empathy >> Sympathy Sympathy is a form of pity. Empathy is rising above it and thinking at par with someone who is going through. Respect is rising beyond what they are going through, and letting them know that they are doing a beautiful job. No one is useless. Everyone knows something you don’t.”
Ankur Warikoo
Respect
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Empathy
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Sympathy
,
Value
,
Understanding
30.
““Now you know how it feels” is almost always the worst way to show people where they went wrong.”
Ankur Warikoo
Empathy
,
Communication
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Correction
,
Approach
,
Understanding
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