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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I've always ignored the labels people put on things. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong. -- Dana Plato
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them. -- David Amram
If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do! -- Caitlin Doughty
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants. -- Joss Stone
I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore. -- Noomi Rapace
It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written. -- Sienna Miller
You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. -- Rick Santorum
Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them. -- Kesha
I'm much better at things if I believe in them, and a lot of those little teenage starlet roles, they have problems, too, and a lot of movies just ignore that. -- Sarah Steele
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. -- Tom Rath
I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent. -- Mark Edwards
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life. -- Daniel Barenboim
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore. -- Ian Mckellen
Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with. -- Grace Gealey
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. -- Don Kardong
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. -- Harvey Pekar
I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both. -- Kevin Barry
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you. -- Yul Vazquez
The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely. -- Mark Haddon
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that. -- William Hughes Mearns

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