Overlooked Quotes - Page 2

• I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

  PJ Harvey

  Causes, Chips, Shoulders

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Courage, Humility, Empathy

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• The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

  James Cook

  Law, Fundamentals, Human Nature

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• It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

  Bradford Cox

  Cynical, Age, Groups

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

  Ellen Kushner

  Cities, Privilege, Wealth

  Ellen Kushner (2016). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Simple, Truth Is, Reason

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• I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

  Brenda Lee

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Foundation

  Brenda Lee, Robert K. Oermann, Julie Clay (2002). “Little Miss Dynamite: the life and times of Brenda Lee”, Hyperion Books

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• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Guy, World, Lasts

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• Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

  Pliny the Younger

  Lying, Eye, Sea

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• What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.

  Walker Percy

  Morning, Simple, Islands

  "The Moviegoer: A Novel".

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• Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Men, World

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• I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

  Mehmet Oz

  Excellence, Tools, Body

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• What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . .

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Goal, Design

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• I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Conceited, Long

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

  John Anderson

  Jobs, Agriculture, Australia

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• In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Practice, Doubt, Skins

  Cheikh Anta Diop, E. Curtis Alexander, Mwalimu Imara Mwadilifu (1984). “Cheikh Anta Diop: an African scientist : an axiomatic overview of his teachings and thoughts”, Eca Assoc

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• I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

  Mike DeWine

  Children, Receiving, Hiv

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• Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

  Hyman Rickover

  Writing, Weakness, Pages

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”

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• As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Past, Matter, Fit

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• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Pet, Groups

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

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• Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set a precedent for players like me and how important we can be to teams. That was something I was happy to do as well, you know? Sometimes players like me are maybe overlooked or not looked at as an important piece to the puzzle, but it was something I wanted to prove and wanted to show.

  Brandon Prust

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it’s often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, or honor. They will pass away, but love remains.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Love Is, Honor, Passing Away

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare Day by Day, Gift Edition: A Year of Devotions for Couples”, p.1, B&H Publishing Group

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