Disregard Quotes

• The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Scarcity, Lessons, Politics

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Success, Nursing, Past

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• I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Believe, Mean

  "Dorothy Day Named National Hero By Obama At National Prayer Breakfast" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Men, Directors, Film

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• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Determination

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• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Important, Use, Television

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• All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

  Paul Simon

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  "The Boxer," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1970 album Bridge over Troubled Water.

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  It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Luxury, Nurse

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• It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

  Dorothy Day

  Judging, Judgement, Action

  "Dorothy Day Named National Hero By Obama At National Prayer Breakfast" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Good Life, Evil

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• Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

  Francis Arinze

  Character, Animal, Men

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• As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

  Louise Slaughter

  Science, Concerned

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• Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

  Irving Langmuir

  Medicine, Boundaries

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• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Spirit

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

  Alan Dundes

  Past

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• In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Light, Law

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• Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Self, Example, Needs

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

  E. M. Forster

  Suicide, Lying, Feelings

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.275, 谷月社

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• A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Evil, Soul

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. September 24, 2002.

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• I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

  Wesley Snipes

  Beautiful, People, Looks

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• When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Tendencies, Polls

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

  Mitt Romney

  Fighting, Long, People

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• The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Accomplishment, Novelists

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.40, U of Nebraska Press

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• We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Work, Pregnancy, Character

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• No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

  Robert Frost

  Memories, Ends, Stardom

  Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

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