Browsing Topic Best Inattention Quotes

A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns…and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? …Attention has no centre.

The true distinction … between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

I’ve survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other’s need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from…the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness…. It is the inattentive reader
who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.