Ancestry Quote by Rex Stout Download Open image ““You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment”” — Rex Stout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestry Environment Genealogy Nature Research
“It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“So that you do not slip into unawareness of what is unfolding around you, while you stand upright, fully engaged with the world.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“I’m on the other end of the spectrum from oblivious, whatever that’s called. Extreme noticing, perhaps? Severe and chronic attention-paying?” — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
“Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.” — Moazzam Shaikh Copy Share Image
“That's what you do when you're clueless: you apply your own narrow little realm of experience to everything you look at and touch.” — Sarah Combs Copy Share Image
“Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn't look past… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“When you have some skills but don’t fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one.” — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“you must realize that the world is a very big place. You must keep an open mind and learn new ways to explore beyond… — Kay Bratt Copy Share Image
“Hiding what you feel inside is like running away from what you are.” — Saga Valsalan Copy Share Image
“It is not in my nature to be interested in the living. But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.” — Rin Chupeco Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image