Misunderstanding And Miscommunication Quotes

#1. When we don't directly ask for clarification, we tend to fill in the gaps with negative thoughts. These eventually become rooted in our minds as truths, and then everyone gets stuck in a cycle of misunderstanding and miscommunication.

Trish Cook

#2. One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

Gautama Buddha

#3. It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

Jane Goodall

#4. Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.

Malcolm Bradbury

#6. We are naked, lance-constable!' 'Only technically. This mud really sticks.' 'I mean underneath the mud!' said Angua. 'Yes, but if we had clothes on we'd be naked underneath them, too!' Sally pointed out.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Man is an ape with possibilities.

Roy Chapman Andrews

#8. Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Mary Frances Berry

#9. Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

Bernard Werber

#10. It's very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.

Marian Seldes

#12. Be thankful for the disasters that warn you clearly before they come!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English Channel in a bath please.'
What actually arrived in the ear of the French Navy man was, 'Hello sire, I would like to fight a condom across a bath if you please.

Tim FitzHigham

#14. Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean, they are dead right now. Walking zombies.

Edward Abbey

#15. I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

Joshua Micah Marshall

#17. We have to try really hard to not accidentally summon a demon.

Peyton Manning

#18. The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

Augustine Of Hippo

#19. We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft