Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex.
I'm a misunderstood genius. " "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.
I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.
Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.