Neglect Quotes - Page 17

• Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, House

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• To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

  Frans de Waal

  Roots, Arriving, Would Be

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Exercise, Progress

  Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Gold, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, David M Gross

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• We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

  Alfred Adler

  Use, Patient, Symptoms

  Alfred Adler (1964). “PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS: A BOOK OF CASE HISTORIES”

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• More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Self, Undone, Duty

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• When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Political, Pay

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• Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Needs, Psychological

  "Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, p. 402, 1931.

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• I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Fall, Flames, Color

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• 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

  Block, Passion, Successful

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• My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

  Thomas Eakins

  Honor, Misunderstanding

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• Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Hard Work, Tired

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

  Narendra Modi

  Names, Abuse, India

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• When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are always two sides to the balance sheet. And one party’s money or savings is another party

  Michael Hudson

  Party, Balance, Speak

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Holiness, Hindrance

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• where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Children, Opportunity

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• He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Likes, Favour

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.325, 谷月社

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• The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Example

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• If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Gratitude, Privilege, Ifs

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.239, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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 done for them.

  Lea Thompson

  Mother, Kids, Self Worth

  "Lea Thompson Talks Parenting, DWTS And Taking Charge After 50". Interview with Caroline Presno, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Meditation, Soul

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1851). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical”, p.73

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Sleep, Preparation

  The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

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• Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

  Sue Grafton

  Character, Views, Water

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
  O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
  O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
  O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.31

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