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
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
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
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
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
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. — Robert Bresson 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
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. — Bharati Mukherjee 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
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
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
“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
There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Once the horizon is narrowing and the countdown is ticking hastily, people may bring themselves to tear down the veil of inattention,… — Erik Pevernagie 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
“It takes our breath away when we see how many cards some people have got up their sleeves. Using deceptive or manipulative… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to… — John Steinbeck 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
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — 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
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
“There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.” — Boethius 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
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
“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
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
“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.” — Helen Rowland 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
“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?” — David John Richards Copy Share Image
