Being Ignored famous quotes
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Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
-- Auberon Waugh -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
-- Jimmy Wales -
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 -
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
-- Lykke Li -
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 -
I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.
-- Nellie McKay -
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 -
You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.
-- Saul Bass -
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 -
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
-- Sean Penn -
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 -
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
-- Steve Aylett -
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
