Simon Travaglia Quotes

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

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

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

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

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.