Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

If you didn't talk to me to write something, you're just making stuff up. You're going by what you think, what you're assuming. I leave it at that. Read it. Believe what you want. But at the end of the day, if you've got a real question, then just come up and ask me, and see who I am as a person.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

Don't make assumptions.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

If you ask the right questions, you learn a lot about people.

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

What I would like is to at least have a discussion with the coach, that he tells me what he thinks. I have to know.

Always ask questions.

I know I've said, 'Do you know what I mean?' an awful lot, and every time I've said it, I've cringed inside.

Before I collaborate, it's important that I have a conversation about what I care about before we make anything, so that it's very clear.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

We could have done things in a more transparent manner and explained better.

I need an audience to look at what I've done so I can understand it, so I can step back and watch them respond and figure out what they're understanding about what I'm trying to do and what they're confused about.

I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication.

Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.

People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.

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