Yeah, but if you’re not doing what everyone else is doing then you’re going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you’re trying to be different; it’s just a natural instinct.
All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.
I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
I’m so misunderstood!
It makes me sad that our kids are growing up in a country where they are American but, in a sense, have to prove it. They can’t just be who they are like everyone else. Who they are is something suspicious, something scary, something misunderstood.
I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I’d take any form of being compared to Dad as flattery. So if I fell off a stool or smashed up a TV set just because I was drunk, and somebody in the bar went ‘Hey, man, that was just like Bonzo!’ I would be really happy.
I’m the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
I sort of enjoy the fact that I’m misunderstood most of the time. That’s fine.
Anybody who writes doesn’t like to be misunderstood.
If I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It’s also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he’s greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn’t.
I like being misunderstood.
To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
I’m not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
I’m so used to being misunderstood.
I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
With young people, I always say, ‘You’re not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.’ As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I’m getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
The thing I think is often misunderstood about Ripple is people say, ‘Oh, Ripple is a centralized platform.’ To me, this is a legacy perspective. Ripple’s technology, IRP, is open source; XRP Ledger is open source.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
I think it’s just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can’t be – where I don’t put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
With young people, I always say, ‘You’re not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.’ As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I’m getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he’s greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn’t.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
I’m a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.
Everyone has a side to them that’s kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
I like the term ‘misunderstood.’ But I am a bit of a bad boy.
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it’s sad that it’s so misunderstood.
I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood – not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you’re not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.
Ronald Reagan’s legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
For years, Ono’s work – musical and otherwise – was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
I find that most home cooks don’t get vinegars. They’re misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with… that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!
I’m a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood – and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I’m really competitive.
When a critic or journalist writes, ‘It’s too complex,’ or, ‘It’s full of plot holes,’ they very rarely take the step of identifying what they mean. The reason they do that is to protect themselves, because they don’t want to reveal that they may have misunderstood or missed something.
Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn’t necessarily the fear of being ‘found out.’ It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
I never liked quantitative easing. It’s misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative.
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