Quotes About Inattentiveness

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

But he heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly.

She listens to him with great intensity because she is paying no attention to him at all.

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.

They thought I was deaf when I was a kid because I was always totally off in my own little world.

He either doesn't hear me or isn't listening

Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Forgetfully, Wilhelm traveled for miles in second gear; he was seldom in the right lane and he neither gave signals nor watched for lights.

She said things and I nodded. I didn't pay attention. She didn't pay attention to me. We floated through our days in that way.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Todavía me observó, pensativa, y luego se puso en pie para buscar en uno de los estantes. Mientras lo hacía, el perro —era una perra— se alzó sobre sus patas, me dio una vuelta alrededor y volvió a tumbarse con indiferencia en el mismo sitio que antes.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

People are far too wrapped up in their own lives to care about what's happening to other people. Even if it is a moment's hot gossip, it's only that - a moment.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

The short answer is that they did not realize what was happening until it was too late.

the only sign that Katharine gave of abstraction was to forget to help the pudding. She looked so like her mother, as she sat there oblivious of the tapioca

My turn signal had been on since

I let it boil and it's got scum on it," Carol said annoyedly. "I'm sorry." But Therese loved it, because she knew this was exactly what Carol would always do, be thinking of something else and let the milk boil.

Not comprehending, they hear like the deaf. The saying is their witness: absent while present.

Making unnecessary noises when you're bored...we all do it.