As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
We usually don't look. We overlook.
It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon.
Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.
I've been called so many names and been written off by so many people who just say, 'Whatever happened to this guy?'
Sometimes you don't realise what you've got, because it's right in front of you.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
Familiarity can blind too.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
