Quotes About Inattention

#1. Adolescents sometimes say ... "My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

Laurence Steinberg

#2. Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

Mortimer J. Adler

#3. Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Robert Bresson

#4. In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

Emily Post

#6. The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#7. Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Robert J. Shiller

#8. At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their silent show to my inattention.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

Bharati Mukherjee

#11. The main dysfunctions of agile team are absence of trust, inattention to results, lack of commitment,

Thiyagarajan Perumal

#12. If Lana Walters had given any thought to dying, she'd have assumed it would hurt more. Instead, when the bus hit her, the lights simply went out. One moment of inattention and then, nothing. Next she knew, she was weightless, flying above Boston.

Mae Archer

#13. Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

Kofi Annan

#14. Thus, his school performance would now be affected by a combination of inattention, anxiety, family disorganization, and motivational factors, resulting in further deterioration.

Katharina Manassis

#15. Queers can't destroy science fiction. No one can. No one can destroy the future. But we can, through malice or complacency or inattention, limit the future.

Sigrid Ellis

#16. Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

#17. As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

Frank Moore Colby

#18. The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.

Howard Zinn

#19. The only thing that is not art is inattention

Marcel Duchamp

#20. And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose

Amy Tan

#21. Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

#22. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

Helen Rowland

#23. The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.

George Washington

#24. Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

Robert Bresson

#25. I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all kinds of things while we ourselves are slumbering in a white zone that looks for all the world like inattention to the onlooker.

Diane Setterfield

#26. I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Jonathan Swift

#27. Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#28. The single most important thing in the universe is the mind. Cherish the treasure. Don't lose by inattention to all around you, and more. Use it constantly and watch it expand endlessly. You will be surprised!

Sohail Mahmood

#29. Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#30. He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business.

Kate Chopin

#31. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from ... the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

Daniel Webster

#32. A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.

Charles Rosen

#33. In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.

Suzanne Berne

#34. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

Amy Tan

#35. To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#36. As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is faultless, except in three particulars." "And what are they?" "A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.

Jane Austen

#37. I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

Masiela Lusha

#38. I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

Twyla Tharp

#39. Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Mark Twain

#40. Inattention to he world's ecological state is well advised. Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness, contentment your sense of well being.

Stephen Jenkinson

#41. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Norbert Wiener

#42. Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Greg Anderson

#43. What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ... Attention has no centre.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#44. Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?

David Richards

#45. It was a symbol of what Ruskin had done for Proust, and what all books might do for their readers, namely bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

Alain De Botton

#46. The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

William James

#47. The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

Dean Koontz

#48. The teeth of the smile evidenced a clinical depressive's classic inattention
to oral hygiene.

David Foster Wallace

#49. Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#50. It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Samuel Richardson

#51. Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

Daniel Goleman

#52. Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now the unspeakable ignorance and inattention of mankind in respect to the influences which form human character.

John Stuart Mill

#53. The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

Abigail McCarthy

#54. She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Thomas Harris

#55. I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

Marty Nemko

#56. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.

Boethius

#58. Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#59. You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

Shannon L. Alder

#60. I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness ... It is the inattentive reader
who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

Michel De Montaigne