Ignoring Quotations

Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.

Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

There is no doubt that now, more than ever, we must work to end our dependence on foreign oil sources. But we cannot do so by ignoring the wishes of the coastal communities that oppose drilling.

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.

Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can cause problems: not trying, showing up late, skipping team-building activities, and ignoring the coach's instructions.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

Verizon is putting an obvious emphasis on communities with greater resources and is ignoring large segments of the state,

Ultimately, ... I think the president is unusually good at ignoring all kinds of outside pressure with an important decision like this and focusing on the merits and what's important for the long term.

This was not a company that was ignoring red flags.

We have in office a corrupt party which now is ignoring the democratically expressed will of the House of Commons. This government does not have the moral authority and the constitutional authority to govern.

the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now.

Major disasters involving heavy loss of life have just shot up. It's in direct correlation to profits and production. They're ignoring safety in the interest of bringing the coal up to the surface.

Monsanto's decision is at least a recognition that it has heard the public outcry and that the public has a role in how the technology develops, ... The biotech industry up to now has been ignoring pubic opinion. It also gives us an opportunity to tell the USDA that their priorities are wrong and that the federal government should not be funding this kind of research.

My guess is that is that at the moment these numbers seem to be supporting the slow down story, ... But the market is pretty much ignoring it and moving on.

Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

If we don't do something, we're ignoring a problem. We're going to do this to see if we can help the situation. We want to help solve the problem.

I am afraid the commission's decision paves the way to mass rigging. We are used to ministers or ministries ignoring court verdicts, but for the head of the Constitutional Court and judges to disrespect court rulings is very serious and unprecedented.

Certainly sentiment towards gold now remains positive, with the market ignoring the further drift lower in the oil price and the recent strength in the dollar,

Building wealth is a process of managing risk, not ignoring it.

Imagination must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

If any travel company is ignoring G2 or ITA, they do so at their own peril.

He is not giving me the paper slip because they are ignoring the Hindus.

With most new HIV infections occurring in youth and women, particularly in communities of color, ignoring the effectiveness of prevention programs while allowing abstinence-only programs to promote ideology over science is negligent and puts young lives on the line.

Today, as bond buyers search in this period of very low interest rates and tight credit spreads for every additional basis point of yield they can find, market participants seem to be ignoring the lessons that were learned in prior bust periods, ... By ignoring those hard learned and expensive lessons, such investors are sowing the seeds of future defaults.

John Kerry is either willing to endanger American forces on the ground or he really believes that ignoring the presence of terrorists is the best policy for the safety of America.

It appears that the journalist at Reuters was somewhat confused in terms of separating speculation and fact, so he ended up publishing speculation as fact and largely ignoring the facts.

I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.

It comes down to the familiar debate about whether reporters are ignoring the good news.

It is a great source of concern when any of these procedures are not being followed. One is always going to find a violation here or there, but an indication that ignoring the rules is widespread practice is shocking and deplorable.

I think we do need more time off, but it's not a government issue. It needs to be a social thing. People need to realize that working all the time and ignoring families is not healthy.

It is as easy as selling the losers and buying the winners. It's a continuation as investors are buying the successful stocks and ignoring the value stocks.

Regardless of what this document is, why is the E.P.A. ignoring its well-reasoned conclusions? And what does this say about the ability of the E.P.A. to compel G.E. to do anything?

Regardless of what happens with this agreement, Congress can, and must fix the Patriot Act to better protect the privacy and freedom of ordinary Americans. At the same time, until the Bush administration stops the illegal NSA program to spy on Americans and stops ignoring the rule of law, any reforms to the Patriot Act could be ignored under the extreme philosophy of power embraced by this president. No matter the result of the Patriot Act, we hope all senators involved in these negotiations will resist pressure from the administration. Congress must restore the rule of law and insist that innocent Americans' rights be protected against the overreaching of the White House. We can, and must, be both safe and free.

Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.

I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.

the arrogance of this body in completely ignoring the resolution of a lawsuit (that was settled) in a way that was agreeable to both parties.

When the BLM agreed that the area met all the requirements for protection and pledged to update its 1987 management plan, the community as a whole took the agency at its word. By allowing gas drilling on these lands, the agency is ignoring public opinion and the conclusions of its own multiyear public process.

Whoever claims that there were 4,000 victims is denying the gravity of this disaster and ignoring the suffering of countless people.

We have tried to reach a settlement through good faith negotiations and regret that our efforts have been in vain. Despite very clear provision in our contracts, EMI persist in ignoring their obligations and duty to account fairly and with transparency. Apple and the Beatles are, once again, left with no choice but to sue EMI.

Today's Main Street is missing places where parents can bring their children, not just come to drink and dine and stroll around. There's not the variety or the cultural development. It's almost exclusively student-oriented. The city is ignoring the needs of longtime residents.

The Deficit Reduction Act is a modest step to control spending. There is nothing compassionate about ignoring reality and leaving a crushing debt burden to future generations.

When will this government learn that respectful partnership requires a willingness to engage in constructive dialogue with the treaty partner, not ignoring them at their peril?

We understand the inconvenience being caused to people because of the strike but there was no other option. The government has been ignoring our demand for so long.

We ask not only Britain but also the United States to withdraw immediately their troops from Iraq. Because the sending of the troops was a unilateral action and ignoring the role of the United Nations.

We didn't expect anything else, the prosecutors are sticking to their version of events and ignoring victims' testimony.

This will continue to be a hot topic for a lot of tech companies. Companies are beginning to realize that their time is limited for ignoring the cost of options.

To change the world, you need to understand and accept that somethings doesn't change and other things do, your job is to identify which is which acting towards things that do change and ignoring things that don't.

With energy prices reaching unprecedented highs, investments in energy efficiency should be a top priority in every state. However, our analysis clearly shows that many states are largely ignoring and failing to capture this lowest cost energy resource that also yields significant environmental and economic benefits.

We want to urge our legislatures, commissioners and other county representatives to stop ignoring recommendations, many of which if followed would reduce current jail populations making the costly expansion unnecessary.

First, dealers are ignoring their best customers. They are spending 80 percent of their time on walk-ins, which only result in closed sales 20 percent of the time.

Both sides have tried all alternatives - ranging from ignoring the other side (India), to the use of force (Pakistan), to the threat of the use of force (India again). Now both sides have run out of options other than to sit across the table and talk.

We're ignoring the health and welfare of the people of this community and acting on the opinions of a vocal minority.

The government put the US-Japan alliance first, ignoring the most important issue: the lives and health of the people.

We've had a good run-up, so it's fine to pull back a little. The important thing is that the market is ignoring bad or lackluster news. You don't see that when something tops, just at bottoms,

We just ignored the crowd and played hard. Missouri really helped us out as far as ignoring the crowd.

What's going on with short-term deficit is minor compared to the problem that is looming. But if they're ignoring the big problem, it's not surprising they're ignoring the near-term issues.

We are upgrading Alcoa to overweight from neutral and raising our 2006 EPS estimate to $2.15 from $1.88 because the market seems to be ignoring the strong aluminum price and the impact it will have on Alcoa's earnings and cash flow in 2006.

We criticize the approach carried out by the UK to support the U.S. in combating terrorism through unilateral approach, ignoring the role of the multilateral organization, the United Nations.

Controlling infectious diseases abroad is domestic policy as much as foreign, ... Ignoring the problem by hamstringing proven programs is a disservice to U.S. citizens who are impacted by the wave of immigrants from these countries.

Anglo-Saxon America dealt with the emotional aspects of life by hiding them, ignoring them, or defining them as problematic. Janis rebelled against those habits, yet there was no guidance beyond the rambling of Kerouac's novels. Releasing one's feelings from years of bondage was a righteous and dangerous experiment.

There's no good argument for just ignoring them.

The tools are in place to regulate sales of these game, including a well-known rating system. The problem is that parents, who are often the ones buying these games, are not paying attention to the rating system, and retailers are ignoring the restrictions. There have to be ramifications for those retailers.

I simply was ignoring the fact that The Waste Land indeed made it seem to many poets that one had to be depressed-not that The Waste Land is a bad poem, it's a wonderful poem-that one had to feel despair, that one had to think that the modern world was terrible.

I understand the people's frustration, but we can't tell people what we are doing because of the sensitivity of these investigations, ... I wish we could, because people could see we are not just ignoring the problem from drug bust to drug bust.

They advocate violence and hate crimes. I don't think ignoring it is the solution.

The stock market is ignoring all of the bad news that is coming out, either corporate or on the economy. There is a debate right now, quarter-or a half-percentage point cut from the Fed. It's becoming more and more evident it will be a half-percentage point and that might be helping the market.

So much of retailers? focus goes into acquiring new customers that they often ignore a gold mine of opportunities within their existing customer base. Whenever a bill is presented to a customer via e-mail, the retailer has another opportunity to not only reduce costs and strengthen customer loyalty, but also to provide the customer with relevant and valued offers that can incite additional purchasing. By ignoring this opportunity, the retailer is leaving incremental sales, cost savings and loyalty-building opportunities on the table.

pushing things toward one direction and issue, which is the inspection teams, while ignoring other related matters such as the questions which require answers.

Normally, with gold surging and the dollar down, you'd see that hurting stocks, but the market is ignoring that today, which is somewhat positive.

The name change is actually catching up. But we are not ignoring the Red Hills. We are still working our rear ends off doing easements in the Red Hills region - close to home.

The mysteries of creation are marvelous. When two persons meet at any time or place, the differences between them are patent. Their forms and manners differ. They differ in their cleverness and intelligence. Their opinions also vary. Without understanding what underlies these differences, the materialist thinker emphasizes the differences. Today, a growing number of intellectuals, ignoring the unity that underlies the diversity, propagate the cult of differences.  The good persons who realize the unity behind the apparent diversity are dwindling in numbers from day to day.  This is highly unfortunate.

Dozens of U.S. businesses are ignoring the issue with 'business as usual' responses that are putting their companies, and their shareholders, at risk.

Definitely, I have a gift. That's what got me here but I was ignoring it. So second run, the little kid in me that has the talent came out and that was huge for me to move forward.

Despite very clear provisions in our contracts, EMI persists in ignoring their obligations and duty to account fairly and with transparency.

Art does imitate life, and the Rodney King beating was a real event. It's a part of all our consciousness, and there's no value in ignoring it.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

The big risk is on the downside, but the market is ignoring a multitude of things they should be concerned about, such as the deficits and the weak labor market. We are getting to a point now where so many stocks are so overvalued that it is ridiculous and somebody at some point is going to say 'Mummy, the Emperor doesn't have any clothes on'.

Zanu PF is preoccupied with establishing a Senate while ignoring critical national issues that need attention,

This is another example of the jury ignoring the law and doing what they are not supposed to do,

This is not a company that was hiding data or ignoring red flags as they came in.

This debate became a source of tremendous embarrassment for South Carolina. The only reason the flag stayed on the statehouse for so long was that a tiny minority of powerful lawmakers dug in their heels and insisted on ignoring the will of the people of the state.

This campaign started with Gore ignoring Bradley and Bradley vowing to run a different kind of campaign. Now it's become personal. These two guys really seem to rub each other the wrong way and it's getting out of hand.

This infamous list of 51 alleged Explorer accidents is, at best, deeply, deeply flawed, yet has been used by some people to point fingers at the Ford Explorer, all the while ignoring legitimate U.S. government data compiled by the Department of Transportation and independent data compiled by the Highway Loss Data Institute,

They're trying to get us off their back about doing a good job and opening themselves up to discussing how they could resolve the current situation. Instead, they are just plowing forward and ignoring us even more.

They have been ignoring us for three years and now they've abandoned us. We're terribly disappointed.