Quotes About Misunderstanding

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

So many people have asked me if I am in a cult. I'm not in a cult.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

So many people who criticize Fox News don't watch Fox News.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

The so-called intellectuals don't like my films.

Could it be that the doctors were mistaking transcendence for insanity?

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

De gangene jeg har merket at en kvinne har vært misfornøyd med meg, har jeg ikke straks gitt hennes lettsinn skylden, men har spurt meg selv om jeg ikke heller burde skylde på naturen. Sannelig har den gitt meg en behandling i strid med både strafferett og sivilrett - og krenket meg på det groveste.

I believe I... offended them in some way. I don't know how. I think my English is not as good as it needs to be in certain situations.' 'It sounds excellent to me.' He sighed. 'That is the problem perhaps. If it was worse, there would be an expectation of...' He laboured silently, then let the sentence roll back down the mountain. 'There would not be the automatic expectation of shared understanding.

This last point is a request to the English-speaking reader. In France, certain half-witted 'commentators' persist in labelling me a 'structuralist'. I have been unable to get it into their tiny minds that I have used none of the methods, concepts, or key terms that characterize structural analysis. I should be grateful if a more serious public would free me from a connection that certainly does me honour, but that I have not deserved.

Would ya like to--- Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, Get a drink with me?

Si la imaginación del hombre es tan débil que no acierta a inventar un garabato que diferencie claramente el cero de la O, Jacinto, todo ha de ser confusión, convéncete, porque hay mucha gente interesada en armarla (la confusión) porque de ella (de la confusión) sacan tajada los vivos, ¿te das cuenta?, y la única oportunidad de convivencia que se nos dio a los humanos, la Torre de Babel, la desperdiciamos bien tontamente.

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.

Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.

We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Just consider what you believe about yourself and what your Mother believes about you. She can say she knows you very well, but she has no idea who you really are. You know that she doesn't. You can believe that you know your Mother very well, but you don't have any idea who she really is. She has all those fantasies in her mind that she never shared with anyone else. You have no idea what is inside her mind.

THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don't Make Assumptions

We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking — we take it personally — then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison with our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Como tenemos miedo de pedir una aclaración, hacemos suposiciones y creemos que son ciertas; después, las defendemos e intentamos que sea otro el que no tenga razón. Siempre es mejor preguntar que hacer una suposición, porque las suposiciones crean sufrimiento.

Cuando ya no hagas suposiciones, tus palabras se volverán impecables.

That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Haces una montaña de un grano de arena porque sientes la necesidad de tener razón y de que los demás estén equivocados.