Ernie Banks Quotes

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

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

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

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

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.