Thursday 7 June 2007

Talking...it's a puzzlement

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McClosky

8 comments:

Kelly said...

You got me...I don't know.

Birdydownunder said...

gotta remember that quote..... just what I need, think I will print it out and paste on the monitor screen of The Scot......
aubirdwoman

M said...

wow, someone got inside my head! ;)

Julia Phillips Smith said...

That's the precise reason I hate making phone calls.

savannah said...

gawd...that is scary

Miss Frou Frou said...

myutopia - it's complex isn't it.. scary thing is that I understand it...

smc - I'm going to frame it and put it up on my desk..lol

m - and mine too

julia - lol, see I love the phone, can communicate much better on the phone then face to face

savannah - I know.. lol

Anonymous said...

Ahh, this sounds very similar to comments made during a disagreement with my DH. Great quote - where did you find it?!

Miss Frou Frou said...

Xine - it was used as part of a Powerful Presentations training program last week, to illustrate that people don't actively listen, but I immediately said, this should be tattoo'd on my personage - a quick google search sourced it to Robert McClosky.