Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

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

Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not sure if she means "O" for Owen, or just plan "Oh." He is not sure what difference it would make in either case. He feels the needs to clarify. "When I said 'I like you very much,' I actually meant 'I love you.'" "O," she says, "I actually meant the same thing." She closes the car door behind her. "Well," he says to himself, driving back to his apartment, "isn't that something?

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

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

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

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

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 never quite know if what I do will be understood.

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

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

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