Ignoring A Problem Quotes

#1. The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.

M. Scott Peck

#2. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

Liz Miller

#3. Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

Kim Harrison

#4. Studies show that people have no problem ignoring strangers' injuries, but when a friend is insulted, our sense of outrage is enough to overcome the inertia that usually makes protests hard to organize.

Charles Duhigg

#5. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.

Rory Miller

#6. Direct communication is the best way to go through life. But many people do not deal with others in that fashion. Instead, they practice avoidance (ignoring the person or the problem) or triangulation (bringing in a third person) or overlooking.

Henry Cloud

#7. Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination.

Sage Steadman

#8. Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Lindsey Graham

#9. We're not ignoring the problem, not really. We're all aware it's there, even Bo. We see the edges of this new Bo, this Bo who's special, different. We're not ignoring it. We're just carefully, carefully avoiding it.

Beth Revis

#10. The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

Mark Hurst

#11. Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent

Anthony Steyning

#12. When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.

Belinda Jeffrey

#13. In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

John Lanchester

#14. the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#15. Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Charles De Secondat

#16. In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

Satish Kumar

#17. Your veins are my worms. Want to go fishing?

Jarod Kintz

#18. Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours.

Anonymous

#19. We feel guilty for all that we have not yet read, but overlook how much better read we already are than Augustine or Dante, thereby ignoring that our problem lies squarely with our manner of absorption rather than with the extent of our consumption.

Alain De Botton

#20. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#21. Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

Alice Waters

#22. Death
a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius

#23. Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.

Paul Murray

#24. I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#25. You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

Daniel Clowes

#26. Often the thing that brings you the most pain is the very thing that will lead you to the most gain and your breakthrough.

Jeanette Coron

#27. The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

Eric Bana

#28. I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

Joseph Mawle

#29. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

Gertrude Bell