“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
“I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
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Czech playwright and publicist 1874–1936Related quotes
“What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand.”
Laozi
(-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius.
Tell me and I [will] forget. Show me and I [will] remember. Involve me and I [will] understand.
不聞不若聞之，聞之不若見之，見之不若知之，知之不若行之；學至於行之而止矣
From Xun Zi 荀子
Misattributed
Hassan Nasrallah
(1960) Secretary General of Hezbollah
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“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
Barbara Kingsolver
(1955) American author, poet and essayist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Social Aims
Sometimes condensed to "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“Why are my hands this way
That they will not do as i say?
Does no God hear when I pray?”
R.S. Thomas
(1913–2000) Welsh poet
"Here"
Tares (1961)
The Making of Americans (1925)
Context: There are many that I know and I know it. They are many that I know and they know it. They are all of them themselves and they repeat it and I hear it. Always I listen to it. Slowly I come to understand it. Many years I listened and did not know it. I heard it, I understood it some, I did not know I heard it. They repeat themselves now and I listen to it. Every way that they do it now I hear it. Now each time very slowly I come to understand it. Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Variant: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.