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
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
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
“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
“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining… — Shannon L. Alder 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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
