Henri Poincare Quotes

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

Amusingly, Christopher Columbus totally bungled ... by relying on subsequent less-accurate calculations and confusing Arabic miles with Italian miles, concluding that he needed to sail only 3,700 km to reach the Orient when the true value was 19,600 km. He clearly wouldn’t have gotten his trip funded if he’d done his math right, and he clearly wouldn’t have survived if America hadn’t existed, so sometimes being lucky is more important than being right.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

It doesn't make it any easier that people form opinions and make judgment calls and think I'm something that I'm not or do things that I don't.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

I have always been misunderstood.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

People think when you're struggling and not winning matches it's because you're not working hard. That's the biggest misnomer in tennis.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

I think people always misjudge me.