Quotes About Misunderstanding

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.

I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

People tend to fear what they don't understand and in a pressure-filled environment with all sorts of personalities, it is very easy to cast unfair accusations.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.

There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are.

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

You got it all wrong in your way of thinking.

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

You have sent me a Flanders mare.