Quotes About Misinterpretation

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause:

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

I woke up and I just saw all these things, like 'RIP Skai Jackson,' and I'm like, 'Why do people think I'm dead? Like, what happened? Where did this come from?' And then one of my fans told me it was some girl who started it. And for me, that's just like not funny at all.

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

Another maladaptive communication pattern is overgeneralization. It refers to the tendency to draw global conclusions in response to isolated events.

if her concerning behavior is instead communicating that she's having difficulty meeting a particular expectation, then simply ignoring the behavior will cause us to miss the boat on what's really getting in the way.

He judged people by himself - and they weren't that way. That was his one mistake. Hilter judges people by himself, too. He succeeds because they are that way.

Chicks, man, am I right? They crazy," you say. "Yes, what IS the deal with over half the human population of the planet? They're definitely all 100% insane," Horatio replies sarcastically.

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

Eskiden her insan hakk?nda hiçbir esasa dayanmadan, s?rf mukavemet edilmez bir hissin, bir pe?in hükmün tesiriyle nas?l: "Bu beni anlamaz?" demi?sem, bu sefer bu kad?n için gene hiçbir esasa dayanmadan fakat o yan?lmaz ilk hisse tabi olarak " ??te bu beni anlar!" diyordum.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can't make myself understood, not in your world, the world of bodies, of tongues and fingers; and most of the time I have no listeners, not on your side of the river. Those of you who may catch the odd whisper, the odd squeak, so easily mistake my words for breezes rustling the dry reeds, for bats at twilight, for bad dreams.

Miss Scace died years ago." "Appearances can be deceptive. She only looks dead.

She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

They were photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

But the truth is I didn't really think she had it in her. And being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how wrong she might have been about her mother, how wrong he might have been about his father, how much of family life is a vast web of misunderstandings, a tinted and touched-up family portrait, an accurate representation of fact that leaves out only the essential truth.

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.