Edie Sedgwick Quotes

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

I have no message.

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

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

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.