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If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.
Clint Smith
Faith
People
Country
Our
Those
Able
Only
Share
Empathy
Come
Like
Misunderstand
Same
Then
Us
Who
Extend
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
Better
Understand
Misunderstand
Lot
Than
Little
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer
Strength
You
Change
People
Problems
Face
Down
Settle
Say
Status
Status Quo
Slower
Some
Push
Misunderstand
Go
Quickly
Size
Quo
Them
Urgency
Should
Hard
Desire
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anthony Hope
Truth
You
People
Telling
Telling The Truth
Promoting
Generally
Misunderstand
Falsehood
Who
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
Aubrey de Grey
You
Way
Evidence
Astray
Correctly
Reliable
Direct
Data
Most
Likely
Dead
Because
Scientific
Misunderstand
Scientific Method
Least
Method
Led
Get
Ends
Your
Uses
Actually
A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I've shown that in all of my fights.
Demetrious Johnson
Good
You
Fight
People
Able
Push
Misunderstand
Lot
Means
Fights
Shown
Cardio
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson
God
Mom
Man
Motherhood
Dare
Price
Misunderstand
May
Lessen
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
Ian Mcewan
You
People
Other
Ways
Out
Spin
Understand
Misunderstand
Stories
Each
I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.
John Harvey Kellogg
Me
You
Believe
State
Everything
Misunderstand
Said
Up
Get
Want
Might
Agree
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen
Book
People
Sometimes
Picture
Films
Frame
Tell
Throw
Talking
Misunderstand
Just
Whole
People misunderstand me.
Martin Freeman
Me
People
Misunderstand
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.
Miroslav Volf
Understanding
Christian
Jews
Response
Muslims
Some
Trinity
Both
Misunderstand
Accuse
Being
Groups
Believing
Fundamentally
Christians
Watching her, I've seen the pros and cons of being in the industry, and how so many people can be so harsh - especially toward someone as talented as Miley. But I look up to her for being so strong, being able to take all of that hate and being able to deal with people who misunderstand who she is.
Noah Cyrus
Hate
People
Strong
Seen
Harsh
Able
Someone
Take
Pros
Toward
Talented
Look
She
Industry
Deal
Misunderstand
How
Up
So Many People
Being
Who
Many
Cons
Her
Watching
People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.
Rob Gronkowski
People
Somewhere
Party
Think
Boy
Misunderstand
Am
Go
Truly
Just
Who
I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
Samuel West
Love
Hate
People
Words
Think
Other
Worlds
Pretend
More
Idea
Misunderstand
Up
Children
Different
Mean
Them
Viewpoints
Grow
Grow Up
Different Worlds
Harder
Things
I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity.
Sheila Heti
Time
Me
Book
People
Light
Seen
Single
Every
Every Single Time
Way
Out
Some
Feel
Like
Without
Misunderstand
Single Time
Lot
Goes
Sensitivity
Little
Then
Published
Things
A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.
Shinsuke Nakamura
People
Strong
Style
Think
Philosophy
Kind
Misunderstand
Stiff
Lot
Hits
Hard
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
History
You
White
Attempting
Study
Supremacy
Force
Understand
Misunderstand
America
American
American History
Fundamentally
A lot of times, people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other.
Tig Notaro
Music
Crazy
People
Try
Will
Think
Other
Wild
Mellow
Pretty
Host
Comedians
Talk
Misunderstand
Lot
Loud
Times
Times People
Just
Want
Us
Should
Each
Event
The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.
Tim Jackson
Time
Quality
Human Being
Speak
Care
Value
Machines
Degraded
Entirely
Rests
Through
Delivered
Attention
Involved
Concern
Another
Trade
Becomes
Misunderstand
Reducing
Person
Human
Commodity
Being
Paid
Even
Peculiar
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
William Gibson
Character
Sometimes
Later
Way
Finds
Compose
Except
Inspired
Seldom
Head
Names
Misunderstand
Text
Very
Often
Anything
Which
Much
Things
Don't misunderstand,' he said, 'there's pressure with every football game… Sometimes players, coaches, teams put pressure on themselves when they don't have to.
Doug Pederson
Game
Sometimes
Pressure
Every
Football
He
Put
Football Game
Misunderstand
Said
Themselves
Coaches
Teams
Players
Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.
Rostam Batmanglij
Writing
Band
Our
Say
Some
About
Outlook
Disappointing
Journalists
Because
Misunderstand
Narrow
Up
Very
Ended
Us
Fundamentally
We should make the case for the things we love, even if we think that people will misunderstand them. That is why people defend the U.S. Constitution, even though so few really understand the subtle thinking embodied in that document.
Roger Scruton
Love
Constitution
People
Will
Few
Think
Thinking
Though
Embodied
Case
U.S. Constitution
Document
Make
Understand
Misunderstand
Subtle
Them
Really
Should
Even
Why
Things
Defend
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