Quotes on Forget

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

I’ll never forget the club or him I don’t see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to 'offer' something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause.

We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them to their ruin. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security and a comfortable life; and they lost all-comfort and security and freedom.

Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.