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Quotes About Overlooked

People don't talk much about my punt returns.
~ Richard Sherman
A lot of people didn't see me play in Sacramento. I think we had one TV game.
~ Rajon Rondo
I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
~ Prince Royce
Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That's
~ Philip Kerr
Teachers know how to improve education, but they are a voice that is consistently overlooked or ignored.
~ Charles Best
Even earlier there were songs where I was not finding appropriate voices, but still I overlooked that and didn't get the perfect voice to sing it. Now I won't do that.
~ Rajesh Roshan
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
~ Pindar
Dunia luar tak ada yang tahu tentang mereka, tak ada yang memperhatikan nasib mereka,
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.
~ Elliot Ackerman
There's so much talent in Brazil, so many guys that will probably never get discovered.
~ Royce Gracie
For years within the group I felt very overlooked and invisible, and I carried these feelings for such a long time. I just felt like no matter what I did, it was never on par with the other girls in the group.
~ Leigh-Anne Pinnock
There are some people who live to be thirty-five or forty, but because no one ever notices, their lives are candle-brief, invisible-small.
~ Ray Bradbury
The master bedchamber at the top of a flight of badly worn and mossy stone steps, overlaid with grime, and the hard-dried excrement and remains of vermin—overlooking, from its single (barred) window, a marshy graveyard, the aged markers tilted and filthy from neglect, spiky grasses growing all around, and pools of brackish water interspersed among the graves.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Suddenly he was amazed to see a lifeboat floating near the starboard side. He phoned the bridge—did they know there was a boat afloat? An incredulous voice asked who he was. Rowe explained, and the bridge then realized he had been overlooked. They told him to come to the bridge right away and bring some rockets with him.
~ Walter Lord
Fußnoten sind wie die Bücher im untersten Regal. Die guckt sich keiner gerne an, weil er sich bücken muss.
~ Walter Moers
The deceptive thing about the little figure that is not there is that its absence so often goes unnoticed. That, of course, is the secret of its success.
~ Darrell Huff
Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.
~ Dave Ferguson
find. At the time, I thought Lewis was a bit hung up on ritual (sacramentalism), but I overlooked this fault
~ David B. Currie
Thomas groaned at how invisible he'd become. "I love how you guys are just talking about me like i'm not here.
~ James Dashner
I'm always getting forgotten," said the grizzled doctor sadly. "I must have a very inconspicuous personality.
~ Agatha Christie
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
~ Al Yankovic
When I fought against Fedor, no one picked me. But then afterwards, they ask 'Who is Fabricio Werdum?'
~ Fabricio Werdum
I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!
~ Angie Dickinson
Part of my own endeavor as a writer has been to find ways to value what is elusive and overlooked, to describe nuances and shades of meaning, to celebrate public life and solitary life, and—in John Berger's phrase—to find "another way of telling.
~ Rebecca Solnit