George Sand Quotes

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

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.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

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

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

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

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

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.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

I like being misunderstood.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

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

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