Jeff Bezos Quotes

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

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.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

A mutual misunderstanding.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.