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Quotes About Misunderstood

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
~ Carole King
I get labelled lazy maybe because of my body language; I'm quite laid-back.
~ Jonjo Shelvey
I tapped into my potential in Bengali films, which I don't think directors in Bollywood were able to understand.
~ Riya Sen
People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
~ Sheryl Crow
Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful, there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money, you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.
~ Frank Lowy
Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
~ Don McCullin
Just because I'm confident and will tell you that I'm awesome and that I'm great, I'm all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?
~ The Miz
Because of how I am on the court, people think I'm wild and crazy. But really, I'm a kick-back guy, so Seattle suits me fine.
~ Gary Payton
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
~ Fiona Apple
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
~ Irvine Welsh
My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.
~ Anushka Sharma
Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
~ Bradley A. Smith
Like so much else, people have also misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure were more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but work.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
~ Ralph Allison
To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him ... I see not how it can be otherwise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.—'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.'—Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Es tan malo, entonces, el ser mal interpretado? Pitágoras fue mal interpretado, y lo fueron Sócrates, Jesús, Lutero y Galileo, y lo fueron todos los espíritus puros y graves que han honrado a la humanidad. Ser grande es ser mal comprendido.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?
~ Ray Bradbury
Page 33 Oh, they don't miss me, she said. I'm very antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.
~ Ray Bradbury
Actions for the good accumulate what is called "merit"—one of the most commonly misunderstood concepts in Buddhism.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Of all Biblical figures, surely Judas is the most misunderstood, as he is the most condemned!"—so Winslow believed.
~ Joyce Carol Oates