Quotes About Absentmindedness

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

Like, for instance, standing in the kitchen wondering what you went in there for. Everybody does it, but because there isn't—or wasn't—a word for it, everyone thinks it's something that only they do and that they are therefore more stupid than other people. It is reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

There was once a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for.

Dante's got the long term memory of a squirrel, Skye snickered. He is forever forgetting which of the acorns he buried were rotten.

I put it in my hat to remember to post it,' she explained, 'but I forgot, so it came with me today still in my hat.

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

Her eyes are open and her mind is somewhere else.

One, two, ... five!" "Three, my lord.

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking. We've discussed the difference between seeing and observing—we see with our eyes, but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when performing an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no Original Awareness.

Since association forces Original Awareness—and since being Originally Aware is the same as having something register in your mind in the first place, at the moment it occurs—then forming an instant association must solve the problem of absentmindedness.

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.

If there's any greater exhibit of the malleability of human nature than the sight of someone standing, absently waiting for the light to change at a deserted intersection, I don't know what it is.

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.

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

I have this condition I call impromptu senility. I can't remember a damn thing when I don't want to.