Will Smith Quotes

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

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

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

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen.

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...

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

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

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

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

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

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

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

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

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.