“The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.” BelieveDesireHumanityAchieveFundamentalsLimitationMisunderstanding Author:Momofuku Ando
“It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.” NeedsBelieveHumansSelfLibertyHuman NatureConceptsDeterminationEconomicsFundamentalsFixedDividesSelf DeterminationPieMisunderstanding Author:Paul Ryan
“The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.” IfsHumansWishPrinciplesOughtConflictFundamentalsAffairNegotiationMisunderstandingUtopiaPointlessFundamental Principles Author:Umberto Eco
“So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel - but there's a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I'd like to say that entertainment isn't a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.” PeopleThinkingFeelsStupidFundamentalsEntertainmentCinemaEntertainingAmendmentsMisunderstandingMindlessDisposableSynonymConnecticut Author:Nicholas Meyer
“There`s three sort of fundamental things that happen when someone`s suffering from these issues [post-traumatic stress disorder ]. First, they get intrusive thoughts.The second issue is you become startled quickly.And the third key point is it`s avoidance.Those are the three sort of pillar fundamentals of what we consider post-traumatic stress, not violence against someone who`s close to you. There`s just a huge misunderstanding.” FirstsHappensSufferingThreeIssuesViolenceHugeKeysThirdsStressFundamentalsPostsDisorderMisunderstandingAvoidancePillarsPost Traumatic Stress Disorder Author:Jon Soltz
“People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.” PeopleIfsSometimesFormCan DoCommunityRiskInformationStandardsFundamentalsBrokeAgreementJailMisunderstandingSecrecyOathIntelligence CommunityClassified Information Author:Edward Snowden
“There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.” MenStillsIdeasDifferentEnoughTogetherBlackDifferencesWhiteRolesBreakAmbitionPrejudiceFundamentalsBreaking DownMisunderstandingObservingMy AmbitionWarrants Author:David Oyelowo
“I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.” WayBelieveHumansStillsLyingI BelieveBornImpossiblePossibilityConsciousFundamentalsIndividualityImprovementDisplaySelectionMisunderstandingProposeBreedingReproductionEugenicsEuthanasiaSterilization Author:H. G. Wells
“People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.” PeopleMindHardDifficultPracticePositionPureEnlightenmentCrossesFundamentalsMisunderstanding Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind