Overlooked And Underappreciated Quotes

Chronic feelings of underappreciation. The players who suffer from the “disease of me” syndrome constantly feel that they are overlooked in praise. We all want to be patted on the back, but some individuals demand constant attention and sulk when they believe, rightly or wrongly, that their skills and efforts are being underappreciated. It leads to jealousy and bad chemistry.

The essence of science, however, is best conveyed by its Latin etymology: scientia, meaning “knowledge.

Science, then, is the reliable acquisition of knowledge about anything, whether it be the vagaries of human nature, the role of great figures in history, or the origins of life itself.

Stephen Hawking has estimated: “Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years. By that time we should have spread out into space, . . .

In the long term, Mars must be a stepping-stone to more distant destinations, because two adjacent planets could be simultaneously affected by the universe’s more violent events, such as a nearby supernova.

If I offered to give you $20 today or $100 in a year, which would you choose?

In truth, much of human social life—our morality, our relationships—revolves around challenges posed by intertemporal choice.

The obscure scientific term explaining why we see most other people as unintelligent or crazy is naïve realism. Its origins trace back to at least the 1880s, when philosophers used the term to suggest that we should take our perceptions of the world at face value. In its modern incarnation, it has almost the opposite meaning. Stanford social psychologist Lee Ross uses the term to indicate that although most people do take their perceptions of the world at face value, this is a profound error that regularly causes virtually unresolvable conflicts between people.

If a system is to deal successfully with the diversity of challenges its environment produces, then it needs to have a repertoire of responses (at least) as nuanced as the problems thrown up by the environment. So a viable system is one that can handle the variability of its environment. Or, as Ashby put it, only variety can absorb variety.

consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.

Population thinking is itself a population of mental and public things. Philosophers’ discussions of what population thinking really is are members of this population. So is the text you just read, and so is your reading of it.

While meditation is not all about sitting still on the floor or in a chair, taking your seat both literally and metaphorically is an important element of mindfulness. We could say that in essence, it is a direct and very convenient way to cultivate greater intimacy with your own life unfolding and with your innate capacity to be aware—and to realize how valuable, overlooked, and underappreciated an asset that awareness actually is.

Maybe she's single by choice. Maybe she's decided that after some time of being overlooked, underappreciated and neglected that she no longer wants to be placed in a situation where she feels like she's wasting her time. Maybe she's single because she promised herself to never settle for less than what she's always wanted and deserves.

In these words glimmer the Surrealist proposal for finding the marvelous in the banal, in the spaces of everyday life, spaces overlooked and underappreciated... they made a first effort to re-enchant the quotidian pathways and places of the city by walking through them.

My bad cards arrived early and stuck around a while, but everyone gets challenged in life at some point. What is your bad hand? What kind of crap are you dealing with? Are you getting beaten? Abused? Bullied? Do you ever feel insecure? Maybe your limiting factor is that you are growing up so supported and comfortable, you never push yourself? What are the current factors limiting your growth and success? Is someone standing in your way at work or school? Are you underappreciated and overlooked for opportunities? What are the long odds you’re up against right now? Are you standing in your own way?