Quotes About Communication And Misunderstanding

#1. There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#2. Never slay your enemies!
Take advantage of them all!

Toba Beta

#3. The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

Lou Boudreau

#4. Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Karl Kraus

#5. I am very picky about my food, and I'm very healthy-oriented, so I always try to cook.

Julie Gonzalo

#6. Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.

Joyce Meyer

#7. I'm not one for a lot of media attention.

Travis Hafner

#8. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. 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

#10. Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding.

Stephen Colbert

#11. By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."
(Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, p. 49)

Carol Ruth Silver

#12. Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

Jim Butcher

#13. Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#14. Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

Tom Cruise

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

Bernard Werber

#16. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

William H. Whyte

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

Charles F. Glassman

#18. I think now, looking back, that we all die, little by little, as each of those we love departs before us.

Brian Ruckley

#19. I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Patrick Rothfuss

#20. I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Max Ehrmann

#21. I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.

Tim Berners-Lee

#22. The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami

#23. It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

#24. For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

Virginia Woolf

#25. I don't wake up with naturally sculpted cheekbones - I paint them on!

Tyra Banks

#26. The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

M. Scott Peck

#27. People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

David Wright

#28. Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#29. There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to see me as I am to see him. There he goes. I can hear him still, scurrying about somewhere under the hayrick. I think he's gone now. I hope he comes back. I miss him already.

Michael Morpurgo

#30. Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.

Karl Popper