#overlook

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

— Randy Newman

#any #back #even #i #i am

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

— Jean Paul

#conquering #consists #courage #danger #overlooking

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#difference #feedback #hate #hates #i

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

— William James

#art #being #knowing #overlook #wise

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ↗

— William James

#learning #overlook

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ↗

— William James

#genius #know #overlook

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#achieved #actually #bad #because #bit

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#colonization #end #frequently #germany #historians

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anxiety #apprehension #endless #forever #may