Alexander Pushkin Quotes

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

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

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

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

Translation is the art of failure.

Language cares.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I have no message.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.