Neglect Quotes
648 Neglect quotes by 487 unique authors
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Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a…
— Walter Hilton
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Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
— Henry Ford
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People become depressed when they neglect their spiritual practice.
— Dharma Mittra
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I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
— Joshua Slocum
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There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work…
— Mao Zedong
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Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more…
— Amy Cuddy
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Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as…
— Wen Jiabao
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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad,…
— Anne Bronte
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People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a…
— Ian Goldin
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Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy…
— Ann Voskamp
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
— David Christian
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded…
— Jacob Epstein
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions,…
— James Fenimore Cooper
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Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest.…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but…
— Landon Donovan
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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being,…
— Stephen Grellet
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My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything…
— Lea Thompson
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All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else…
— Joseph P. Bradley
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are…
— Lord Melbourne
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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
— William Hepworth Thompson
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A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of…
— Howard Crosby
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Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
— James Wyatt
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the…
— Alexander Fleming
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