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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the… — Robert Andrews Millikan 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 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
