Being Ignored Quotes

• I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

  Julia Roberts

  Teacher, Shapes, Want

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• I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

  Damien Hirst

  Inspirational, Change, Art

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• There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

  Sean Penn

  Inspiration, Individuality, Mediocrity

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• Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

  Joseph Simmons

  Inspirational, Running, Self Esteem

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• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  Harlan Ellison

  Motivational, Stupid, Ignorance

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• I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

  Saul Leiter

  Thinking, Privilege, World

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• Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

  Ricky Gervais

  Interesting, Office, Everyday

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day", www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• I hate being ignored.

  Amanda Palmer

  Hate, Ignored, I Hate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

  Lykke Li

  Creating, Finding Yourself, Good Times

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• An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

  Mason Cooley

  Crush, Anger, Insult

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• The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

  Steve Aylett

  Speak, Great Things, Impunity

  "Heart of the Original". Book by Steve Aylett, 2015.

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

  Sloan Wilson

  Children, Kindness, Too Much

  Sloan Wilson (1976). “What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after”, Arbor House Publishing

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

  Helen Reddy

  Baby, People, Records

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• It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

  David Levithan

  Would Be, Invisibility, Invisible

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.78, Egmont UK

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• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  Self, Differences, Poetry

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• Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Needs

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• If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

  Chuck Berry

  Talking, People, Want

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Long, Used

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• Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• The thrill of being ignored!

  Markus Zusak

  Thrill, Ignored

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.125, RH Childrens Books

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• Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Broken, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.

  Travis Tygart

  Athlete, Today, Elsewhere

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Looks, Urban

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Mother, Children, Years

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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