“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play… — Fernando Pessoa 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
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. — Mark Twain 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
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
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses.… — Greg Anderson Copy Share Image
“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness… It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The addiction to our mobiles may insidiously unlock evil actions by helplessly surrendering to the plague of blatant indifference, arrogant inattention, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our… — Carl Sagan 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
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
“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
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
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
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. — Bharati Mukherjee 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
