Inattention Quotes
Inattention Quote of the day
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
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.
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
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
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.
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.
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.
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.
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.
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.
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.
Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.
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.
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
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.
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.
Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.
