Quotes About Inattention

The habit of inattention must be considered as the greatest bane of the democratic character

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

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. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Why are we so careless that we let our own histories die without even noticing?

People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.

The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.

The whole future–I thought–will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning. But it won't be worse that the past.

So, not expecting to see anyone, he failed to do so.

People rarely notice what they don't expect to see.

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer

Fortunately for terrible spies, most people are terrible observers.

los descuidos matan y los descuidados mueren.

The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.

I have known a man who did not know what color his sister's eyes were, though he had seen her every day for twenty years; or rather, he did not know because he had so seen her: so true is the philosophical maxim that we neglect the constant element in our thoughts, though it is probably the most important, and attend almost only to the varying elements—the differentiating elements (as men now speak)—though they are apt to be less potent.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

To avoid fatigue and inattention, he did his work over the course of a week

As a teenager he had observed that success bred presumption and that presumption bred inattention. On the other hand misfortune fostered care and vigilance, by which losses might be reversed.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

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