Left Out Quotes - Page 4

• Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Culture, Waste

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Science, Order, Iowa

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

  M. Scott Peck

  Integrity, Missing, Wish

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, Touchstone

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• Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

  Mark Twain

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

  Emilia Clarke

  Kids, Hair, Likes

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• We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

  Ashleigh Banfield

  War, Marine, Puff

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• I'm lucky that I haven't been left out in the cold like Mumta Kulkarni or Meghna Kothari.

  Ameesha Patel

  Lucky, Cold, Havens

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• If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Government, Doors

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• We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

  Jean Craighead George

  Horse, Smell, Pigs

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• People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction and old Westerns. And because of the tenure of the times, African-Americans were left out. As a result, reality was distorted.

  Philip Roberts

  Reality, Cowboy, Media

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• Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Struggle, Today

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Japan, Important

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready...

  Oswald J. Smith

  Prayer, Men, Giving

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• We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

  Abraham Maslow

  Males, Definitions, Study

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• I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Believe, Mind

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• What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, States, Description

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• One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Racing, Age, One Day

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Christmas, Kings, Holiday

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House

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• You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

  Al Sharpton

  Healing, People, Rooms

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

  David Pleat

  Player, Courses, Left

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• I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

  Melanie Brown

  Thinking, Race, Community

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• A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

  Shawn Amos

  Grateful, Years, Film

  "The Long, Strange Trip of Woodstock Ventures" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely left out. With either extreme, photographing makes me have to deal with it.

  Andrea Modica

  Beautiful, Looks, Sometimes

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