Quotes About Inattention

Politics for most people is distant from their everyday lives. They give little attention to it and they don't care about being politically well informed.10

evidently sown while the bishops slept (Mt 13:25).

it. Oh, crap. He'd forgotten all about Ellen, but

Which is to say, the same things that will likely do us in: the greed and blindness of the few, the hungers of the many, a fatal inattention to the fragile web of life on which our existence here depends.

You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickles, and went on believing that their only danger was to acknowledge the reality of these signs.

we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.

But we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.

Osiris stopped paying attention to how his kingdom was being run. That was willful blindness, and there is no blaming that on mere age.

Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.

Life, despite their frantic yoohooings, had passed them by.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already. Dhammapada 21 We frequently hear it said that staying involved in life keeps you young.

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

That's one thing I've learned: you think people are watching you, noticing things, but they're not.

You saw her a hundred times, but not once did you look at her.

out of sight,out of mind

him at all. He ignored Valls's

inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

The inattention of the Bush administration to the threat from al Qaeda had results. Shortly before 9/11, Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, turned down FBI requests for some 400 additional counterterrorism personnel.

In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.

do not seem to be taken into account.

Perhaps Pre's driving was affected enough that he simply misjudged the curve and his approach speed. Perhaps, as one policeman speculated, he was reaching for a cassette tape and took his eyes off the road. Perhaps he failed to make the turn for an altogether different reason. The result is the same.