Quotes About Dismissive

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Stop it, who cares about this Dostoyevsky, who gives a damn about the Karamazovs.

His shortcoming, a fatal one, was his arrogance: he was not an overt bully, and he listened carefully while assessing a situation, but he was right about everything, contemptuous of those who crossed him and dismissive of their arguments. People like him tend not to have friends: friends serve only to make the tough decisions so much harder.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! (Rhett Butler)

Uh... is dat een bonte havik?' vroeg Will... 'Nee, dat is geen bonte havik,' zei Halt nors, zonder zelfs even de moeite te nemen te kijken waar Will naar wees. 'En als het er toch een is kan hij de pot op.

A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off.

then they will not care a fart for us.

Her dismissive skill was subtle and brutal, sometimes no more than a thin smile, a watery upward look or an amused intake of breath, a scanning cauterizing instrument which rendered any endeavor puny or extravagantly indulgent . Her son was her prize victim.

so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.

I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.

The ones who are not soul-mated—the ones who have settled—are even more dismissive of my singleness: It's not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say—they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation—yes, honey, okay, honey—is the same as concord.

We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

Buckley was not dismissive of this outrage; he simply proceeded as if it were interesting but not really relevant.

while at the same time insisting that the pursuit of illumination remain within the limits of the shariah. Conservative and dismissive of scientific rationality, it was Al-Ghazali more than anyone else who made Sufism respectable.

You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.

I don't care if Spielberg directed

Instead he said something like: "Oh, well." Or perhaps, "Quite so." Either way, it served the purpose of making a noise without saying anything at all.

He have a modified shrug that tilted one shoulder forward,

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.

Do you think I really care what Jeff Gordon says?