Quotes About Overlooked

Here's a tip more academic authors could heed: don't make "originality" your only goal. If there is one common failure in letters from first-time authors it's the suggestion that nothing like this manuscript has ever been attempted. If you've found a dark corner of the field to mine as your own, you might have lucked into something valuable and overlooked

He was but as the cuckoo is in June,Heard, not regarded.

Like some overcrowded party, no-one had noticed her arrival, and no-one would notice if she left.

You never think about the things you don't think about, the things that are just there, part of the background, part of the routine.

tantas cosas suceden sin que nadie se entere ni las recuerde

What no one else sees, no one else cares about.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

I guess everyone's had an experience when they felt overlooked, ditched, hurt or taken for granted. Where they felt like the only one behaving with common sense but still got the short end of the stick. We all feel like the odd one out at some point.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.

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.

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.

Nobody talks about my contribution to the sport. Nobody talks about the 101 medals I have won in my 20-year career. Nobody talks about the efforts I made to attain those heights.

I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

quite often happens that a phenomenon is insignificant only because one fails to take it into account."4 The missing dimension in our current understanding of the heat wave stems precisely from this kind of diagnostic failure.

love was like some shabby old footstool. Everyone used it without wanting it and no one ever gave it a moment's thought.

So you're like… living in the margins, making your case in the margins, trying to make a difference maybe, from the margins...but nobody really wants to listen to you. To see you. 'Cause you're not the story they want to tell.

In the wake of the Communist victory in 1949 and the CCP's subsequent decades of lavish self-praise as heroes of the anti-Japanese resistance, the Nationalist war effort has often been overlooked and denigrated.31

It's almost out of sight out of mind because there's so many cards. One great fight could happens one weekend and another great fight happens next weekend, you kind of get swallowed up in that pack. So you have to find a way to separate yourself and what better way to do that than on ESPN?