Being Ignored Quotes

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

I hate being ignored.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.

The thrill of being ignored!

Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.

If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.