Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 6

• I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Frustration, Needs, Growing

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• 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.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Real, People, Our Actions

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• Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

  Iris Origo

  Sunset, Opportunity, Office

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• Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Blessed, Soul

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

  Lyman Bryson

  Philosopher, Endless, Enjoyment

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• I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

  Arthur Miller

  Principles, Accepted, Results

  "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89". www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2005.

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• Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

  Thomas Sowell

  Financial, Economics, Method

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.79, Basic Books

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• I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

  Alberto Salazar

  Athlete, Personality, Stuff

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Challenges, Generations, Friction

  "Embracing the Culture of a Younger Generation" by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Thinking, Confusion

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• The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adversity, Artist, Atmosphere

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

  Jose Padilha

  Trying, Conscious, Clear

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• Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Worry, Flags, Fundamentals

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• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Believe, Russia, Long

  "How metals and a ruthless streak put Russian patriot at top of the rich list". Interview With Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2007.

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• I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

  Vicente Fox

  Thinking, Migrants, Bigs

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• The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

  Henry Rollins

  Safety, Deception, Middle

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• I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Europe, French Culture

  Ecce Homo "Why I Am So Clever" (1888) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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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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• There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.

  Timothy Noah

  Class, White, Middle

  "Slate: The Common People vs. the Party of the People". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2008.

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• The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Passive Voice, Nouns, Adjectives

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson, Penny Lee (2012). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.113, MIT Press

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• The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to sweep the public misunderstandings and the false notions off its own front walk. Thus will a pathway be cleared for popular appreciation of the important rule of business in our freedom and in our way of life.

  Harry Amos Bullis

  Appreciation, Business, Humanity

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• There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Understanding, Faults

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.283, Princeton University Press

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• More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

  Peter Dicken

  Alliances, Venture, Different

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Moving, Together, Cherish

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• How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

  Orville Dewey

  Heart, Dark, Simple

  Orville Dewey (1841). “Discourses on Human Life”, p.158

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