Quotes About Visibility

Nobody sees you when your being humble.

Tired of being ignored? Then raise your voice, put yourself upfront for the world to see . Don't wait on it to happen . Make it happen.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

And I have long known that the moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

I was told that since my photograph was as widely distributed as my publisher could make it, I would find it impossible to move about without being recognized. Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once.

Witnesses, native and Russian alike, agree that there is something almost metaphysical about the tiger's ability to will itself into nonbeing—to, in effect, cloak itself. In the Bikin valley, it is generally believed that if a tiger has decided to attack you, you will not be able to see it. With the exception of the polar bear, which also hunts by stealth, there is no other land mammal this big whose survival depends on its ability to disappear.

Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn't mean you cannot see them.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Be so big and bold that people have no choice but to look at you and see you for who you are. If they don't like it, well, maybe they'd rather be blind.

We lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same moment the sole preoccupation of others.

But, just as we do not possess that sense of direction with which certain birds are endowed, so we lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of the people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same time the sole preoccupation of others.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

To see yourself on camera is not a natural thing, a thing no normal person is comfortable with; for it shows us as others see us, not as who we believe we really are.

If you don't show it, it doesn't exist. Saying "We have great customer service" is likely said by everyone else in your industry. And if everyone is saying it, you can be assured it means nothing to the consumer—that is, until you show it.

To name is to make visible.

Does the work of a girl always have to be so anonymous?

I catch myself thinking that I'm not physically visible, that whoever I'm talking to is responding to my personality, not my person.