Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 10

• Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

  Buck Rodgers

  Honesty, Believe, Misunderstood

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• The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in which classes have not been abolished in our country and the imperialist system still exists in the world. On this point, there should be no misunderstanding or wavering.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Army, Fighting

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

  John Corapi

  Believe, Ignorance, Years

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• As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Heart, Long, Mind

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• A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding.  No person, place, or thing can give you happiness.  They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the JOY of Living comes from within.

  Genevieve Behrend

  Giving, Joy, Feelings

  Genevieve Behrend (2013). “Your Invisible Power: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.

  Abul Kalam Azad

  Religious, Communication, Leader

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• Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Married, Forget

  "Guide for Those Wishing to Marry". Story by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

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• The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, People, Trying

  "Dillon Bucks Wayward-Youth Roles". The Arizona Republic, June 24, 2005.

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• It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

  Paul Ryan

  Determination, Believe, Self

  "Conservative 'Young Guns' Offer Views on America's Future". A Roundtable Discussion, www.today.com. September 14, 2010.

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• There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.

  Dada Vaswani

  Mistake, Emotional, Incompatibility

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• We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate them are in essence revolutionaries, but they do not realize it and believe that they are working for 'progress.'...but that which they call justice is the triumph of Jewish principles in the world of which the two extremes are plutocracy and socialism. Present day Anti-Semitism is a revolt against the world of today, the product of Judaism.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Believe, Essence, Two

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• I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

  Amos Lee

  Blow, Thinking, People

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• To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

  Ken Livingstone

  Government, People, Nazism

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.

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• I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

  Tanith Lee

  Christian, Teaching, Sometimes

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• When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

  Jim Cramer

  Years, People, Able

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• The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, World

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
  It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
  It doesn't matter much to me.

  John Lennon

  Eye, Work Out, Matter

  "Song: 'Strawberry Fields Forever'". 1967.

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• Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.

  Juliet Marillier

  Running, Character, Thinking

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• In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

  Kurt Masur

  Symphony, America, Pieces

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• If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .

  James Callaghan

  Order, Community, Answers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Impact, Long, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Jail, Agreement, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up there talking with the Chinese leadership and they said to me that they were a bit concerned that the Americans had a misunderstanding about their relationship with the Soviets. There was some suggestion that there was a rapprochement developing between China and the Soviets, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

  Bob Hawke

  Talking, Numbers, Chinese

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so we are as needy and wanting to be part of him, as he, obviously, was needing and wanting to be part of us. And that's why I've really taken the freedom, because it's an adaptation, to give her a voice.

  Liv Ullmann

  Taken, Men, Voice

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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