Lea Thompson Quotes

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

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

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

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

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

Modern history is like a deaf person who is in the habit of answering questions that no one has put to them.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

I really hate misunderstandings - to a degree that it's hard for me to watch sitcoms, or any kind of funny movie where there's, like, this big mishap, or miscommunication. It gives me such anxiety that I almost can't make it through the movie.

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

If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

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

I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

I still do get all these letters from people saying they are not pronouncing my name correctly!

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