Quotes About Misunderstood

no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

One of his Prayers of the Faithful was always "for those who are misunderstood.

Me – accused of being too nice. It boggles the mind.

catering to fears of being misunderstood leaves you dependent upon your audience. In the simplest yet most deadly scenario, ideas are diluted to what you imagine your audience can imagine, leading to work that is condescending, arrogant, or both. Worse yet, you disregard your own highest vision in the process.

All of the work dried up after that.... I was shunned. They didn't want to hear the other side.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble. —Bobby Goodspeed

Many of the things we think we know about heaven are half-baked versions of the truth, influenced more by ancient philosophies, the medieval imagination and pop culture than by what the Bible actually says. How, then, did the Christian story of heaven and earth come to be so misunderstood?

To be accomplished but resented. Or to hide behind the more outré of their pursuits and be considered erratic but harmless.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me." "No, I don't." "Yes, you do, everybody does. It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me. Even robots hate me. If you just ignore me I expect I shall probably go away.

The German pilot had come up and was standing by smiling as Mr. Parker Pyne finished answering a long interrogation which he had not understood. "What have I said?" he asked of the German "That your father's Christian name is Tourist, that your profession is Charles, that the maiden name of your mother is Baghdad, and that you have come from Harriet.

From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked.

You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren't wanted.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

Peoples think I's a harmless idiot," he said. "They's only half right.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I had such a warped self-image. And I really think America thought I was an eccentric loudmouth. I thought I was demure.

I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.