Quotes About Inattentive

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.

You know, that's my trouble," he groaned. "I never listen to anybody. Somebody kept telling me to put my headlights on, but I just wouldn't listen.

Lytton Gore saw nothing, noticed nothing

It's just that,well,I'm gonna pull a Brad on you." "You're going to start totally ignoring me?

You really are Captain Oblivious.

He must have been one of those men who doesn't really notice such things and leaves it to others to sort out any awkwardness or imperfections. This is not because they are thoughtless or because they consider themselves too high and might, it's simply that their brains don't register these practicalities or the world around them.

When I'm not focused, I'm quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I'll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

Sunnie could talk to a dead body for an hour before she'd notice the person wasn't breathing, and likely finish her story even after she had.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. -Tom Buchanan

tutti gli altri hanno cattive maniere; noi abbiamo ogni tanto cattivi momenti. Tutti gli altri sono maleducati; noi talvolta siamo un po' distratti.

teacher droned on and on, lecturing

He got away with those affairs because he was never inattentive to Ellie. Some of the other guys around here should take a lesson from that. What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they'll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

As a rule Uncle Giles took not the slightest interest in anyone or anything except himself and his own affairs—indeed was by this time all but incapable of absorbing even the smallest particle of information about others, unless such information had some immediate bearing on his own case.

But he never hears of anything. If two men fought a duel in his own dining-room he would be the last man in London to know it.

But he did not hear us:

People can be stunningly unobservant.

indifferent to small details, incapable of maintaining an orderly filing system, constantly misplacing memos, pens, and cell phones that had just been handed to me

I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied.

You were a bit careless

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.