Robin Van Persie Quotes

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.

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

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

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

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.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

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

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

You know your inside, and you know the others' outside: that creates jealousy. They know your outside, and they know their inside: that creates jealousy. Nobody else knows your inside. There you know you are nothing, worthless. And the others on the outside look so smiling. Their smiles may be phony, but how can you know that they are phony? Maybe their hearts are also smiling. You know your smile is phony, because your heart is not smiling at all, it may be crying and weeping.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself