Sentence examples for before being understood from inspiring English sources

A great leader listens more than she speaks, asks probing questions and seeks to understand before being understood.

As Stephen Covey says, "Seek to understand before being understood". Remember that your coach is there to support, encourage, challenge you and, ultimately, create a space of accountability for what you have identified as your goals. 5. Expect change.

Understand before being understood makes the fit easier all around--an open embrace of others' history is key.

That's why it's incredibly important to ask yourself, "Do you really know what the other person is going through and where they are coming from?" Seek to understand first before being understood.

The new health care law was voted on before being read or understood.

What Arno experiences, defending The Cantos to his baffled friends, is what Eliot meant when he recommended that poetry "communicate before it is understood".

Eliot said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood," and this describes a lot of books I can think of.

Until we test our beliefs, we can't say for sure if we have leeches or we have aspirin" — an effective remedy that was used before it was understood.

Seek to understand, before you are understood, as the saying goes.

Seek to understand (as Stephen Covey taught us) before you are understood.

But if there is no time apart from the measured celestial motions, how is that "before" to be understood?