Quotes About Unnoticed

You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a hero. Does your father visit you every weekend without fail? A hero. Does your teacher mark your papers faithfully when you make a mistake? Unexampled heroism, that. If everyone is a hero, then no one is a hero; and genuine heroes will go unnoticed in all the mindless self-congratulation.

The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

Church staff creep silently as part of their job, you don't notice them.

I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

Nobody bothered with him. His failures were private and invisible

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

But I'm kind of used to being invisible

I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close.

If you'd asked me, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. But of course, nobody had asked me.

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.

That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.

You only keep a watch on those who cause you suffering. If you want to remain unknown to the world, all that's needed is not to hurt anyone.

Whimsical people were the type who got run over by cars without anybody really noticing or caring that much beyond the damage to the vehicle, which was usually minimal anyway, whimsical folk being kind

Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them.

I was backing into the picture I wanted to see by noticing what wasn't in it. It was like trying to understand a photography by studying the negative. I found myself focusing not on what people remembered, focused on, and said, but on what they forgot, disregarded, and did not say. I was backing into the deep story, as I am calling it, and noticing what, in human consciousness, it crowded out.

But it doesn't work: they forget you.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.

I went under the radar my whole life.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

I try to stay under the radar.