Top 1200 Being Misunderstood Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

A profession which is seen as intellectually glamorous is often the most misunderstood when it comes to the commerce involved.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

I think snakes are misunderstood. Everyone is scared of them. I can really relate to them.

I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of music that I totally loved. The Cure was my favorite band, even though they're not specifically a goth band. I was listening to everything from The Cure to Depeche Mode to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus and all of that stuff. It was just this release for me. I was able to channel a lot of my loneliness and my feelings of being misunderstood, and I could go into this world where it was okay to be really eccentric.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

I've always felt really misunderstood because I got a lot of energy, and I never conformed to a certain path.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.

All of the business of selling apps and selling subscriptions is extremely cruelly misunderstood, including by me.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

I honestly feel the term 'molecular gastronomy' is mostly misunderstood. It is not a style of cooking. Rather, it is a philosophy which encourages chefs to be more creative.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.

It is interesting to watch yourself on a reality show. It makes you think about the things that you say and how what you meant to convey can be so easily miscommunicated and misunderstood.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

When I was growing up in the 1980s in the Midlands, I felt abandoned and misunderstood. Then I chose drum 'n' bass and graffiti as my subcultures - which didn't really help.

For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

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?