Bernard Werber Quotes

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.