Looking for quotes about miscommunication? We have rounded up the best collection of famous miscommunication quotes, sayings, captions, status messages, (with images and pictures) to emphasize how important proper communication is in relationship, life and work.
Miscommunication means failure to communicate adequately. This gives rise to misunderstanding between two people and as a result you start losing trust, and faith in your partner. These inspirational quotes on miscommunication will definitely give a light on speaking with clarity to avoid confusions and heartbreak.
Miscommunication Quotes
- “Miscommunication is endless.” – J.P. Rattie
- “Miscommunication is the key for heartbreaks.”
- “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
- “If you wanna know something, just ask. Don’t assume.”
- “Miscommunication leads to complication.”- Lauryn Hill
- “Miscommunication can mean the death of a relationship.”
- “No Communication is better then Miscommunication.” – Parvez
- “Sad when a relationship go sour because of miscommunication….”
- “Miscommunication is the root of almost every problem. Think about it.”
- “Words are the source of misunderstandings.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other.”- Orson Scott Card
- “Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.”- Shiv Khera
- “90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.”- Dale Carnegie
- “The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”- J. B. Priestley
- “Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.”- Sharon Salzberg
- “A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other.”
- “Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.” – Khalil Gibran
- “The only thing for sure we know about communication is that we tend to get it wrong.”- Michael Ray Smith
- “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”- George Bernard Shaw
- “Miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.” – Charles F. Glassman
- “Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”- Lionel Trilling
- “He seemed to think we were on the same page. I wasn’t even sure we were reading the same book.”- Jodie Andrefski
- “Over a miscommunication that probably could be fixed with a 5 minute conversation, I’m still praying.”- Sean Anderson
- “Miscommunication is the scandal that motivates the very concept of communication in the first place.” – John Durham Peters
- “We fall to miscommunication / in that moment I might die / I’ll let you go if you really mean it.”- Andrew James Perdomo
- “The longer the silence remains untouched the longer the miscommunication creates its own stories.” – Christina Strigas
- “Just a small puff of miscommunication, creates a big storm of misunderstandings, wreaking havoc in a smooth relationship.”
- “Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.” – Jason L. Ma
- “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”- Bill O’Reilly
- “Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.”- Bernard Werber
- “We seem to have a knack for miscommunication / It stabbed us in the back this time / Is this the end of the line / ’cause that’d be a crime.”- Chambers
- “Miscommunication gives birth to misunderstanding. Misunderstanding gives birth to mistrust and mistrust ultimately kills a relation.” – Raj Matwa Jat
- “The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McCloskey
- “Well, it’s really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us…and nothing.”- Malcolm Bradbury
- “It was just kind of a miscommunication on which way we were supposed to go. It was supposed to be a handoff at the line. It didn’t work out.” – Zac Taylor
- “So whatever is on your mind, know you can always say it / Miscommunication, we don’t know what we’re saying, no / Miscommunication.”- Richard Jackson-Grose
- “It’s very important to choose our words very carefully because miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which rarely leads to anything good.” – Charles F. Glassman
- “I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can’t communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.”- Nate Lowman
- “Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”- Joseph Fink
- “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”- Tony Robbins
- “Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people “I thought you said this.” Poetry comes out of that too.”- Tom Waits
- “You asked me to be an open book. As I’ve already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don’t confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.”- Darnell Lamont Walker
- “In another couple of generations, we’re really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that’s the problem. That’s the disconnect. That’s the miscommunication.”- Nick Nolte
- “Remove the stress of miscommunication by asking questions. This will aalow you to confirm what the speaker intended to communicate and let them know you understood the intended message.” – Julia Bruce
- “But you are my queen. No one but you. And I like seeing you wear it. Because as long as you do, I know you still love me. And given our history of miscommunication, physical cues are helpful.” – Soman Chainani
- “Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there’s nothing. So when it’s damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.”- Earl Sweatshirt
- “The overall purpose of human communication is – or should be – reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.”- M. Scott Peck
- “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.” – Ludacris
- “When we don’t directly ask for clarification, we tend to fill in the gaps with negative thoughts. These eventually become rooted in our minds as truths, and then everyone gets stuck in a cycle of misunderstanding and miscommunication.” – Trish Cook
- “And I got – I got – I got to thinkin’ about – about miscommunication. Like, how – isn’t that the root of it? Conflict. War – does – doesn’t it all come down to – to language? Right? The – the words we say and the words we hear, which aren’t always the same thing.”- Noah Hawley
- “All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.” – Jay Samit
- “Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion… It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it’s like visiting another planet.”- Julie Delpy
- “People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.”- Rob Payne
- “I come from the mind-set that, if you want it to work, it will work, whether it’s a friendship or a relationship. If you’re both in the same mind-set and you want to be together and you want to make it work, you can make it work. It just takes dedication and knowing that there might be some miscommunication and lack of communication sometimes.”- Chloe Grace Moretz