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Misunderstand Quotes

We’ve collected the best Misunderstand Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Howard Stringer, William Gibson, Ian Mcewan, Shinsuke Nakamura, Gary Larson. Use them as an inspiration.

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Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?
2
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes – I’m often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don’t think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.
5
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
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Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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It doesn’t really bother me if people misunderstand me. It’s cool, but you can’t do anything about it.
8
The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I’m not saying the Democrats don’t want a strong economy. Don’t misunderstand. They just don’t want it now.
9
We should make the case for the things we love, even if we think that people will misunderstand them. That is why people defend the U.S. Constitution, even though so few really understand the subtle thinking embodied in that document.
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I don’t want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.
John Harvey Kellogg
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People misunderstand me.
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Don’t misunderstand good manners for passivity.
13
Some of the journalists who‘ve ended up writing about our band – and this is disappointing to say – have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.
14
Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
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Vera Caspary wrote an essay called ‘My ‘Laura‘ and Otto’s’ where she talks about the arguments she had with Preminger. She felt that not only did he misunderstand the character but that he couldn’t help but be misogynist.
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Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.
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I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
Samuel West
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I’m not miserable; please don’t misunderstand me. I have a lovely life.
19
A lot of times, people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other.
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Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.
21
There’s something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It’s not about rejecting or hating other countriesfilms, but about protecting our domestic film industry.
Min-sik Choi
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Many people misunderstand me – I’m quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
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Don’t misunderstand,’ he said, ‘there’s pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don’t have to.
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There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up… But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.
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I feel like every single time I’ve published a book, there’s some little light in me that goes out. I’ve seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
27
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don’t understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
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There’s no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur’an, there’s no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there’s no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.
30
Watching her, I’ve seen the pros and cons of being in the industry, and how so many people can be so harsh – especially toward someone as talented as Miley. But I look up to her for being so strong, being able to take all of that hate and being able to deal with people who misunderstand who she is.
31
The ‘garra charrua’ is something we’re proud of, even if other people sometimes misunderstand it.
Diego Godin
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Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people’s desire for change.
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If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
34
A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I’ve shown that in all of my fights.
35
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.
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Because bisexual people almost have a foot in the gay and the straight world, their friends can misunderstand them too. Like if a bisexual man starts dating another man, people are like ‘Ah, he’s gay,’ but you know, bisexual people remain bisexual, and their attractions can change and flux over time.
37
People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I’m a party boy 24/7.
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As the growth mindset has become more popular and taken hold, we are beginning to find that there are pitfalls. Many educators misunderstand or misapply the concepts.
39
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.

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