the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
He had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that… — Florence King Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.” — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself. — William James Copy Share Image
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.” — Boethius Copy Share Image
