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Quotes About Misunderstood

Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.
~ Ruth Westheimer
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
~ Todd English
The general public may not have an understanding about me and what I do, how I feel about my children, how I feel about my family, how protective I am over my family and children. They just see a big guy in a cage that fights, that knocks people out or this and that.
~ Travis Browne
I'm never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I'm just not what people think of.
~ John de Lancie
Donald Trump was really cool. I think a lot of people don't understand him. He brings so much media attention to anything he does. He's a proven success. I think people should listen to what he says a little more than focusing on hair.
~ Bobby Lashley
Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.
~ Euripides
Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood; simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.
~ Fernando Pessoa
El gozo de ser comprendido no puede disfrutarlo quien quiere ser comprendido, porque eso sólo les sucede a los complejos y a los incomprendidos; y los demás, los sencillos, los que pueden ser comprendidos por los demás, ésos nunca sienten el deseo de ser comprendidos.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.
~ Niki de St. Phalle
No one has ever seen me as feminine.
~ Zoe Bell
If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.
~ Jill Soloway
Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'
~ Lauren Mayberry
I'm a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that's how they want to perceive me, then so be it - but they don't know who I am.
~ Andre Gray
Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Whoever said I hated the media?
~ Rodrigo Duterte
I've got ADHD, and my whole life, people thought I was some kind of troublemaker because I had all this energy.
~ Yungblud
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
~ Edmund White
No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
~ Anne Frank
My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man's understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world.
~ Dian Fossey
A lot of times, people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other.
~ Tig Notaro
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
~ Zayn Malik
Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
~ Rick Smolan
I believe the term 'head coach' has been misunderstood, though not by Slavisa nor nearly every one of the other candidates we interviewed. Slavisa avidly embraces the concept of head coach, which is to be on the pitch, training, organising, planning, and everything that comes in preparing for and leading the Club on match day.
~ Shahid Khan
For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.
~ Anna Nicole Smith