Neglecting Something Quotes

#1. If your life is like a tragedy it is because you have been neglecting something - most likely yourself.

Bryant McGill

#2. People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

E.W. Howe

#3. Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Nancy Gibbs

#5. Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs an accumulated positive energy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence.

Alija Izetbegovic

#7. The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Dave Mearns

#8. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Epictetus

#9. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster

#10. The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

Matthew Lesko

#11. I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.

Lucas Till

#12. We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us ... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again ...

Ai Yazawa

#13. Of course, in philosophy, you settle one bill only by neglecting another, a strategy which must eventually fail since all of them fall due at the same time.

William H Gass

#14. The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

Iris Apfel

#15. The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

James Ellis

#16. I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger

Jen Campbell

#17. It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.

Miranda Kerr

#18. Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruines (smiling yet
Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
Patient in my necessitie.
Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection:
Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
Neglecting thy derision.

Robert Herrick

#19. Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

Steven L. Layne

#20. When any of our faculties retains
a strong impression of delight or pain,
the soul will wholly concentrate on that,
neglecting any other power it has;
and thus, when something seen
or heard secures the soul in stringent grip,
time moves and yet we do not notice it.

Dante Alighieri

#21. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.

Selenis Leyva

#22. What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep ... thought Mr. Abbott sleepily ... following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed.

D.E. Stevenson

#23. They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Edith Wharton

#24. Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

Ingrid Weir

#25. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

Joshua Slocum

#26. We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#27. That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl

Diana Gabaldon

#28. A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.

Fennel Hudson

#29. Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

Stephen Furst

#30. Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

K.P. Yohannan

#31. The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

Coretta Scott King

#33. Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#34. Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#35. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

William Benton Clulow

#36. Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.

Charles R. Swindoll

#37. Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Joshua Bell

#38. Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.

Donald S. Whitney