Quotes About Ignoring

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

Ignoring the question is not the solution of problem, Same as forgetting the sorrow isn't happiness

But just like one's conscience, a woman's intuition can be dulled if she persistently disregards it. Have you ever noticed that we often regret ignoring our intuition but we never seem to regret listening to it.?

Jane saw the little note and ignored it, for she was very angry and hurt and mortified, but—she was a woman, and so eventually she picked it up and read it. MY

This inability may be grounded in an inborn dull-mindedness (in the literal sense), or in a general indifference developed in the course of a lifetime, or finally, in an insensitivity to certain impressions as a result of repeatedly ignoring them.

It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.

the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

Nothing about his betrothed please him more than her resolute determination to carry to its utmost limit that ritual of ignoring the unpleasant in which they had both been brought up.

When you try to extinguish a tantrum by ignoring it, the first response you always get is called an extinction burst. People will do whatever it is you are trying to ignore louder, longer, and more enthusiastically. This might make you believe that ignoring them isn't working, but what it actually means is that it is.

No idea is bad unless a person is uncritical. Accepting a guess as a truth, as superstitious people do, is misguided, but so is ignoring a guess, as pedantic people do. As regards ideas, it is only bad not to have any.

Vous êtes bien? demanda Coban. Elle ne le regarda même pas. Elle savait qu'il savait.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace. — Thomas Merton

He thought of how the world organises its affairs so that civilisation every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. And how people accept this either by ignoring it and calling it current affairs or politics or wars

She walked right on past, ignoring him just like she chose to ignore the way nature had tagged her with those outsized badges of femininity, just like she was above him, and sex, and everything else that's weak and of the flesh.

Californians spoke derisively of all the exotic birds that had established feral populations in Florida, conveniently ignoring the fact that the Los Angeles basin was also full of escaped parrots and the like.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

doing an excellent job of ignoring

For my part, I ignored her jibes, as I had long ago formed the opinion that it is best never to notice children at all in any capacity lest they take a simple greeting as an overture for discussion -- or worse yet, touching by grubby, sweet-sticky fingers.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

The Law of Ignoring says that whatever you ignore will, most likely, get worse in time. If you want to live life on your terms and secure a job that provides the life you want, you have to make it happen.

He'd make sure to impress upon the wench his displeasure with her actions if only she weren't being so completely childish as to ignore him all morning.

She wanted the pain to be over really quickly in this case too, but she seemed to think that ignoring it would make it go away (Band-Aids sometimes do fall of by themselves).