Quotes About Omission

The argument has never been whether Kaepernick is one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. He's not in the top 10 either. But when you consider the alternatives teams are considering, Kaepernick's omission begins to look ridiculous.

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.

we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.

But we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.

Don't ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.

First error: Freud failed to notice that sins of omission contributed to mental illness as much as, or more than, the sins of commission, listed above, that constitute repression. In doing so, he merely thought in the typical manner. People generally believe that actively doing something bad (that is the sin of commission) is, on average, worse than passively not doing something good (that is the sin of omission).

There is another fundamental problem, too, with the life-lie, particularly when it is based on avoidance. A sin of commission occurs when you do something you know to be wrong. A sin of omission occurs when you let something bad happen when you could do something to stop it. The former is regarded, classically, as more serious than the latter—than avoidance. I'm not so sure.

Children can be damaged as much or more by a lack of incisive attention as they are by abuse, mental or physical. This is damage by omission, rather than commission, but it is no less severe and long-lasting.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.

Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

was left off the list. The guy was avoided

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

The silences of history must be made to speak [Il faut faire parler les silences de l'histoire].

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the things they neglect to do - the good things - the kind, thoughtful words, compassionate thoughts and hopeful attitudes they might have had towards their neighbor.

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized "realistic" story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its "realist" style.