#misunderstood

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Elliott Gould

#greatest #misunderstood

All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#be-yourself #free #journaling #journey #misunderstood

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#going #i #i believe #innovate #misunderstood

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

— Tony Blair

#care #feel #know #lives #misunderstood

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. ↗

— John Cleese

#another #back #better #else #good

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#understood #write #you

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#genius #misunderstood #genius

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment