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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• Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

  Steve Carell

  Couple, Divorce, Emotional

  "‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’: Steve Carell Talks Divorce, Infidelity In New Film". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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

  Alan Dundes

  Past

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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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• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  Nassau William Senior

  Happiness, Political, Attention

  Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.130

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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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• The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

  Lord Acton

  Democracy, Vices, Morality

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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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  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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• Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

  Irving Langmuir

  Medicine, Boundaries

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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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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• Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Faith, Art, Public Opinion

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Soul, Mankind, Precious Souls

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