{"quotes":[{"text":"Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["answer","answers","critics","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","misconceive","misconception","misunderstand","misunderstanding","right"],"id":8622,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates a link and the recipient identifies it as a mutual bond. A gift, however, is tangible and a promise is not. Eventually, a promise can be expounded as misunderstood, or misheard or it is simply over and done. If misheard, the social bond is to be put into question. If forgotten, it can be reminded but this is embarrassing. If elapsed, it is one of those broken promises that infest countless relationships. ( 'Promised me a breeze of freedom' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["bond","donor","elapsed","embarrassing","forgotten","gift","identity","infect","link","misheard","misunderstand","mutual","promise","remind","social-relationships","symbol","tangible"],"id":62889,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["communicate","communication","control","convey","dialogue","doors","exchange","ideas","ignorance","intellect","interpret","interpretation","language","meaning","misinterpretated","misinterpretation","misunderstand","misunderstanding","peace","power","power-of-words","reading","right-word","sentence","speaking","suzy-kassem","talking","thinking","thought","tones","translation","underestimate","understand","understanding","war","wars","word","words","writing"],"id":156848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["dividend","edit","editing","egocentric","giving","greed","misconstrue","misunderstand","misunderstood","narcissism","narcissistic","question","return","sacrifice","sacrifices","sacrificial","sacrificing","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","selfless","wisdom","word","wording"],"id":215691,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.You were alone, you always will be.But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - 'look, life's so good.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","hiding-feelings","life-positive","misunderstand","optimism","realization","someday","tears","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":282305,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ambiguity","ambiguous","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","comprehend","comprehension","ear","ears","eye","eyeglasses","eyes","funny","gaze","gazing","general-semantics","glasses","hear","hearing","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","language","look","looking","misunderstand","misunderstanding","satire","see","seeing","semantics","sight","spectacles","understand","understanding"],"id":324639,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, 'What else could this mean?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anger","ego","misinterpretation","misunderstand","misunderstandings","overthinking","pain","perception","perspective","questions","reading-into-everything","reading-into-things","second-quessing","self-esteem","self-improvement"],"id":333553,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I've learned my lesson. I know nothing.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","caution","humorous","know","know-everything","know-nothing","learn","learn-lessons","misunderstand","misunderstood","quote","understand"],"id":398602,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"Don’t misconceive God; His purpose is for us to enjoy fruits, but He gave us seeds so that we can grow the fruits. Misuse of a seed is a murder of fruits!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["food-for-thought","fruits","future","god","grow","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","misconceive","misconception","misconceptions","misunderstand","misuse","murder","myles-munroe","results","rewards","seed-of-greatness","seeds","understand"],"id":438674,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","art","art-gallery","artist","confused","humor","humorous","irony","misunderstand","painting","quote","sarcasm","thousand","understand","visitors","witty","witty"],"id":466387,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}