Quotes About Ignoring

When you're traveling, it's easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.

Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it's the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.

The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that 'historians' of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion?

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

The whole point of having enemies abroad is getting to ignore the once back home.

As an investor, what should you do about forecasts—forecasts of the stock market, forecasts of interest rates, forecasts of the economy? Answer: Nothing. You can save time, anxiety, and money by ignoring all market forecasts.

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

Old age. I don't know when it really starts, and I'm not interested in finding out. Julia pretty much ignored the whole thing, and that may be the only real lesson there is for the end of our days. Just pretend like it isn't happening, until you have no choice but to accept reality. If you're lucky, like Julia, you'll die peacefully in your sleep after having enjoyed a dinner of onion soup.

Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant.

And in those days, girls like Sadie were conditioned to ignore the sexist generally, not just in gaming—it wasn't cool to point such things out. If you wanted to play with the boys, they couldn't be afraid of saying things around you.

Sam texted her. He was starting to resent the elliptical nature of texting Sadie, the way she could ignore half of what he said and, often, the important half.

I don't think of it as avoiding, he said. I think of it as another opportunity to practice ignoring things that bug me. —Steady Practice

The problem with today's world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

She would have called after him but for the dread of being ignored.

Aha, Andrea said. I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

Thirrin pointedly ingnored the long woollen warmers that Oskan had carefully rolled down over the ears of his mule, Jenny. Even the fact that they were bright yellow with red pom-poms on the very tips didn't drag any sort of comment out of her.

Ultimately, and I believe this is one of the fundamental problems with socialism, it's that human beings do have self-interest. It's very hard to ignore that self-interest when you're creating a government structure.

I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.