Most Overlooked Quotes

#1. Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

Mark Batterson

#2. 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

#3. Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru,
Colombia and the Caribbean
Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their hearts
For he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan.

Dejan Stojanovic

#4. It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if the noticing is fear and disgust.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. [E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

Napoleon Hill

#6. It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

Bela Kun

#7. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

Ambrose Bierce

#8. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Mae West

#9. A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was my second time imperiled in a a parked vehicle in the space of three hours. I wondered what goonish spectacles I'd overlooked in my own career as a pavement walker.

Jonathan Lethem

#10. The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#11. There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Marlee Matlin

#12. One thing Mr Chaudhuri has overlooked in his remarkable thesis on Hinduism: no religious community in India would take this tarring and feathering of all that they hold sacred save the Hindus.

Khushwant Singh

#13. there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I

Daniel Keyes

#14. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Maude Royden

#15. The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

#16. Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds:

Charlotte Bronte

#17. So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Mark Twain

#18. The pleasure of doing the same thing, in the same way, every day, shouldn't be overlooked. The things I do every day take on a certain beauty and provide a kind of invisible architecture to my life.

Gretchen Rubin

#19. I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.

Lydia Davis

#20. 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

#21. The problem is to appreciate differences in the basic premises of thought and in the very methods of thinking, and these are so often overlooked that our interpretations of Chinese philosophy are apt to be a projection of characteristically Western ideas into Chinese terminology.

Alan W. Watts

#22. find. At the time, I thought Lewis was a bit hung up on ritual (sacramentalism), but I overlooked this fault

David B. Currie

#23. Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

David Zucker

#24. I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

Daniel Handler

#25. I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

Sebastian Pinera

#26. In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gary Bauer

#27. A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#28. Options are often an overlooked form of value - flexibility is one of the Three Universal Currencies (discussed later). Find a way to give people more flexibility, and you may discover a viable business model.

Josh Kaufman

#29. Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Bob Barr

#30. Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. There was no amazement, but only an impression of delightful rightness, of being reminded of happy things that had in some strange way been overlooked.

H.G.Wells

#32. I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Ann Curry

#33. It's often overlooked. It's labor. That's at the heart of # collaboration .

Martin Scorsese

#34. It was always better--safer--to be overlooked.

Michael Scott

#35. This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it will reveal another layer, previously overlooked themes, images, and meanings. For within every great book there are several others.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#36. In an era of human history in which we prize comfort above nearly every other virtue, we have overlooked an important truth: comfort never leads to excellence.

Jeff Goins

#37. Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.

Hillary Clinton

#38. The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Ray Stannard Baker

#39. 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

#40. Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

Leo Tolstoy

#41. Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!

George Santayana

#42. If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.

Julia Glass

#43. Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Matt Groening

#44. 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

#45. You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Bob Dylan

#46. The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

Sue Monk Kidd

#47. It's a funny thing, but it's often overlooked that I'm a huge devout lover of French cooking. I have the utmost respect for them, though they have lost their respect for me because they think the way I cook is nutty.

Wylie Dufresne

#48. Beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewere. Beauty hides behind the scenes of the May Day parade. If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenery.

Milan Kundera

#49. Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Tug McGraw

#50. The ultimate social law, the law of respect. In some ways, a large offense done with respect was more easily overlooked than a small offense done with disrespect.

Sunil Yapa

#51. It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked.

Rutina Wesley

#52. If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.

Larry Kramer

#53. 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

#54. In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

Frederick Lenz

#55. To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#56. Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.

Lisa Kleypas

#57. Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

Pam Allyn

#58. Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Alain De Botton

#59. I understand football. I have always been a good footballer, and that gets overlooked by most people.

Alan Smith

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

Ramesh S Balsekar

#61. What is easiest to see is often overlooked.

Milton H. Erickson

#62. Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are.

Bruce Vilanch

#63. Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Booker T. Washington

#64. Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it's merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

Bill Parcells

#65. The old idea, or rather the old prejudice, that women are protected by men was so deeply ingrained in that society that they overlooked what was the most obvious, that is, that the weakest and the disadvantaged are the most exposed.

Ruth Kluger

#66. The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

Ira Glass

#67. Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

Richard Elman

#68. It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Tony Visconti

#69. Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

David Ricardo

#70. You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Lorenzo Snow

#71. Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

Nancy Lublin

#72. At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

Anne Ursu

#73. Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Kevyn Aucoin

#74. "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Dickens

#75. There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

John Welwood

#76. I was born in Swindon ... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

Justin Hayward

#77. That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

#78. The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked.

J.C. Ryle

#79. We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

John Fusco

#80. 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

#81. Almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I

Mindy Kaling

#82. I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

Jerry Spinelli

#83. We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Sheryl Sandberg

#84. Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

Margaret Whiting

#85. The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

Paul Davies

#86. Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.

Chris Jordan

#87. Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.

Jeff Lemire

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

James Cook

#89. Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Mo Ibrahim

#90. He eyed his class of Harvard men sternly. "Girls are also human beings," he told them, "a point often overlooked!!"17

Jill Lepore

#91. I knew how to be a friend, a lover, a partner. I knew how to make someone feel cherished and seen and listened to -- everything I had myself always so desperately wanted and been afraid I might never have because I was so used to being overlooked.

Alexis Hall

#92. I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.

Thomas S. Monson

#93. The fact that one people's frontier is usually another's homeland has been mostly overlooked.

Kathleen Norris

#94. The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

Pope John Paul II

#95. 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

#96. In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

James Dyson

#97. Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Jerry Saltz

#98. There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.

Solange Knowles

#99. Inner state. You need to be extremely alert and absolutely present to be able to detect them. Whenever you do, it is a moment of awakening, of disidentification from the mind. Here is one of the most common negative states that is easily overlooked, precisely because

Eckhart Tolle

#100. Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.

John C. Maxwell