Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.

The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

I use one word to ward off love: No. She used no words to ward of love. Seriously, she tells me nothing, and in this way she tells me she doesn’t love me.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into the day. There was beauty locked...

It’s possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices.

Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.

Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require...

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.

The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands!

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

You can’t ignore reality. You won’t wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

When I talk about the Internet, it’s because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can’t ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that...

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.

History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.

Before ‘Austenland,’ I got do a lead role in ‘Northanger Abbey’, which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can’t really ignore Jane Austen. It’s always been there.

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people’s...

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Until pains are endured, depressions surmounted, mockeries ignored and goliaths conquered, destiny might not be achieved

If you ignore the mountain, doesn’t mean mountain will ignore you too..

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It’s almost maddening.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn’t problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

plus one.” But I did get all worked up, and I spent the evening on the couch, crying.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Your suffering needs to be respected. Don’t try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you....

We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two.

We’ve been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don’t. There’s no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There’s only life. And whether...

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

I’m a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

My advice is to just ignore the problem until you’re dead. This could be the quickest solution of your life.

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there’s a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas – because they simply don’t know about its...

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

It’s only a problem until you ignore it. Come on, that’s Politics 101.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for.

You don’t know what you have until you use it. You don’t have to wait until you lose it

I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone’s only attracted...

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products....

A fan can be used as a listening device, pushing sound waves towards your ears, along with cool air. I listen harder than a hurricane, and that’s why I have a vacant and evacuated expression.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these...

I’ve been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop.

Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.

I never realizedtill nowhow hard the brain has to workto make the body do what it asks.Or maybe how hard the body has to workto ignorethe brain.

Express [yourself] without worrying what everyone else will think. Those people are your limits. Ignore them.

A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored.

We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You’ve run out of excuses and we’re running out of time....

All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him...

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

Democrats don’t react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just...