Quotes About Visibility

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

Do we all possess a wish to remain unseen, unnoticed? Is the witnessing of our actions by others our greatest restraint?

A distribution strategy can differentiate your product from the crowd.

I can't imagine a job where you go home and maybe go by a year later and you don't know what you've done. My work, I can see what I did the first day I started. All my work is set right out there in the open and I can look at it as I go by. It's something I can see the rest of my life.

Sight is about contrast. You cannot see an object if there is nothing to contrast it against.

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

I think that the way forward now is more schemes and much more disabled people on TV: in sitcoms, in soaps. A disabled person reading the news would be the dream.

I feel like everyone is really craving people to come out. People want - they need - to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol' U.S. of A.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

When you want someone to notice you, there's one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?

Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.

Social media has been such a big important thing for young artists and minorities because it's a community to get noticed. It's having an audience that was never there before.

I was not on social media for a really long time because I was afraid of being seen.

The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.

The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.

Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.