Miscommunication Quotes

• Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Communication, Bridges, Numbers

  "The Proverbial Wisdom of Earl Sweatshirt". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2015.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

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• To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, Communication

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 08, 2015

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• Miscommunication leads to complication.

  Lauryn Hill

  Complication

  Song: Lost Ones

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• 90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

  Dale Carnegie

  Management, Problem

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• Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Tides

  "Humans are clueless on cause of oceanic tides, Bill O’Reilly claims" by Stephen C. Webster, www.rawstory.com. January 5, 2011.

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

  Shiv Khera

  Pay

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• The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

  J. B. Priestley

  Communication, Mean, Talking

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• Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

  Lionel Trilling

  Understanding, Obscurity, Advantage

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

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• The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

  M. Scott Peck

  Wall, Communication, Purpose

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• I come from the mind-set that, if you want it to work, it will work, whether it's a friendship or a relationship. If you're both in the same mind-set and you want to be together and you want to make it work, you can make it work. It just takes dedication and knowing that there might be some miscommunication and lack of communication sometimes.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Communication, Dedication, Knowing

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

  Nate Lowman

  Fighting, Communicate, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

  Julie Delpy

  Differences, Confusion, Add

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Laughter, Memories, Rain

  Karen Kingsbury (2009). “The Lost Love Collection: Even Now and Ever After”, p.20, Zondervan

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Confused, Moving

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

  Ludacris

  People, Understanding, Beef

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• In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

  Nick Nolte

  Couple, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

  Tom Waits

  People, Said, Exciting

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more: it's fascinating to put people together and see what happens, how they fall in love and what that means in their lives.

  Theodora Goss

  Falling In Love, Mean, Writing

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Real, Fighting, Boys

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