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Quotes About Overlooked

Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile.
~ Kameron Hurley
Left-hemisphere moment: Choose to analyze instead of criticize. Cynics criticize, but winners analyze and spot overlooked opportunities that others have missed. Right-hemisphere moment: Overcome bad habits by putting new ones in place, such as paying yourself first instead of last. Subconscious moment: Fear of failure keeps too many people out of the game. Instead, use failure as inspiration to succeed, as Texans do with the memory of the Alamo.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.
~ Larry Kramer
We rarely hear the names of these early Western photographers now, though they were quite important: Carleton
~ Larry McMurtry
Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.
~ Stephanie Perkins
It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
There is always a suspicion...that one is living a lie or a mistake; that something crucially important has been overlooked, missed, neglected, left untried, and unexplored; that a vital obligation to one's own authentic self has not been met or that some chances of unknown happiness completely different from any happiness experienced before have to been taken up in time and are bound to be lost forever if they continue to be neglected.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
~ Alain de Botton
writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
~ Alain de Botton
When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.
~ Billy Graham
If you weren't an extrovert, if you weren't shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked.
~ Jenny Colgan
sometimes she felt the world wasn't built for people like her. Confident, big-personality people like Surinder simply didn't understand. If you weren't an extrovert, if you weren't shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked. And normally she didn't mind.
~ Jenny Colgan
If you weren't an extrovert, if you weren't shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked. And normally she didn't mind.
~ Jenny Colgan
But sometimes she felt the world wasn't built for people like her. Confident, big-personality people like Surinder simply didn't understand. If you weren't an extrovert, if you weren't shoving yourself out into the open all the time, posting selfies everywhere, demanding attention, talking constantly, people just gazed right past you. You got overlooked. And normally she didn't mind.
~ Jenny Colgan
the Crippen case tended to be overlooked, however, because of an event a year and a half later that further sealed Marconi's success. In April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg
~ Erik Larson
Y así había sido toda la vida. Tampoco nadie había prestado mucha atención a Antonia en la pastelería. Ni a Elsa grande cuando juraba y perjuraba que deseaba dedicarse a la pintura. En realidad, nadie escuchaba a nadie.
~ Espido Freire
If you were to ask me what's broken in this world, I'd say it's the amount of talent found in the places we ignore.
~ Andrew Mayne
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.
~ Richard Elman
Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'
~ Phil Jones
It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.
~ Gedde Watanabe
Don't you mind being short?' she blurted. He spread his small hands and looked at them. 'I am a magician, not a princess. A pony costs less to keep than a horse, which means I can buy more books.' He paused. 'It is not always a bad thing, to be overlooked.
~ Robin McKinley
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
~ Robin S. Sharma
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
~ Neville Cardus
And then, when the inevitable mechanical failure occurred, rather than trying to understand what signs had been overlooked, he would bully the engine. There was no other word for it: he would bully it by removing bolts and nuts brutally;
~ Alexander McCall Smith