Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

You should never assume about someone.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Do not hear one and judge two.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

I've said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You're assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.