Quotes About Omission

The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed.

I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.

The essence of strategy," Porter often says, "is choosing what not to do.

We are much more concerned with errors of commission than errors of omission (failures to act). We're more wary of "causing" a bad outcome by acting than "letting it happen" through inaction.

Wrapped within all these forces interfering with quitting decisions is that we do not think of sticking with the status quo as an active decision in the same way that we view switching as one. We are much more concerned with errors of commission than errors of omission (failures to act). We're more wary of "causing" a bad outcome by acting than "letting it happen" through inaction.

But omission-commission bias causes us not to view these decisions as equivalent. That's why we accept that explanation of "I'm not ready to make a decision yet" from others and why we accept it from ourselves. Of course, what that really means is "I'm not ready to veer from the status quo.

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their history lessons.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

An important aspect of an epistemology of ignorance is the realization that ignorance should not be theorized as a simple omission or passive gap but is, in many cases, an active production.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

I figure we can tell events exactly as they happened, just leave out that one tiny detail." "You figure, do you? You must be using a different kind of math than the rest of the universe does.

He will talk about what some other people said, and what he and some other people did, and when he never specifically mentions women it will be like the Soviet news agency which never publicizes anything containing the names of the towns where the new bombs are.

You are asking us to lie, Colonel? I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the...the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low. The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it...

Ethical transgressions are generally divided into two categories: the bad things we do (acts of commission) and the good things we fail to do (acts of omission). We tend to judge the former far more harshly. The origin of this imbalance remains a mystery, but it surely relates to the value we place on a person's energy and intent.

Really, Emmanuel,' said Julie, 'wouldn't you think that all these rich people, so happy only a short while ago, had built their fortunes, their happiness and their social position, while forgetting to allow for the wicked genie; and that this genie, like the wicked fairy in Perrault's stories1 who is not invited to some wedding or christening, had suddenly appeared to take revenge for that fatal omission?

what is not voiced scarcely exists; silence would gradually erase everything, and the memory would fade.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Often it is what we do not say which gives away a flaw in our thinking

What a fate, to be condemned to work for a firm where the smallest omission at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion!

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.