Overlooking Quotes

• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

  Jean Paul

  Courage, Self Improvement, Conquer

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• Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

  Ann Patchett

  Sight, Goal, Focus

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

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• The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Patience, Practice, Social

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.114, Sophia Institute Press

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• Memories don’t fade, it is just we who start overlooking the things once done or said.

  Anuj

  Memories, Starting Over, Done

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• By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

  Mitch McConnell

  Mistake, Thinking, Leader

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• The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

  Taylor Swift

  Break Up, Wrong Person, Chance

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• But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

  Cliff Richard

  Peace, Cutting, Needs

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• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  Randy Newman

  People, Viagra, Mail

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• Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Discovery, Historical, Facts

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• When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.

  Emily Bett Rickards

  People, Helping, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths. The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strength, Being Strong, Native American

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• Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.

  Milan Kundera

  Thinking, Europe, People

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• You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Letting Go, Mean

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• I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

  Elias Canetti

  Happiness, Hate, People

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Prés: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Nice, Lying

  "The Unquiet Grave" by Cyril Connolly, (Part 2), 1951.

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• Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out more plainly; but nowhere else does the limitless mercy of God, which utterly transcends all human standards, stand out more clearly and plainly.

  Emil Brunner

  Men, Mercy Of God, Guilt

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• Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Love, Secret, Twists

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• I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

  Mark Carwardine

  Writing, Water, I Can

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• We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Men, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.

  Jack Benny

  Beautiful, Rooms, Dump

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• In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.

  James A. Baldwin

  Journey, Reality, Darkness

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• At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Bishops, Hearing

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