Niko Kovac Quotes

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

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

There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

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

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

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

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Communication is something we all take for granted.

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

So often people read conspiracy into a thing when it's really a confluence of cock-ups and the wrong button being pressed at the wrong time, or the guest you wanted gets into the wrong taxi and doesn't show up.

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

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

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.