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Quotes About Inattention

With patient inattention hear him prate.
~ George Meredith
I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.
~ Anonymous
This is what it leads to! This is what it leads to if you let your attention wander for a moment!
~ J.M. Coetzee
Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.
~ Jonathan Krisel
The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik
~ Chris Hedges
I like the way I can't keep my focus. I watch you talk, you didn't notice.
~ Taylor Swift
Louise?" "Hmm? Sorry, I was distracted. What did you say?" "I said, what do you think about our Mr. Hossner here?" "I prefer not to." "I've tried that myself: ignoring the government, seeing if it would go away. It hasn't.
~ Ted Chiang
I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.
~ Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
horsemen ignored both the right and the left flanks
~ Clive Cussler
The parental units take no notice of me as I make my leave. They are too busy having a discussion.
~ Cecil Castellucci
He never thought of Carton. His mind was so full of the others, that he never once thought of him.
~ Charles Dickens
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
~ Greg Anderson
Travers shot Jade a look of annoyance when he began to chew on an ice cube. He, of course, didn't notice.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Sometimes the indifference's and neglect will often do much more damage than it ever has.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.
~ Thomas Harris
In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird
~ Thomas Paine
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
~ Mordecai Richler
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
~ Edward Thorndike
The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing" is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don't know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.
~ Lemony Snicket
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.
~ leno jay
People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
~ Joe Williams
In order to reach the superconscious, affirmations must be free from all uncertainties, doubts, and inattention. Attention and devotion are lights that can lead even blindly uttered affirmations to the subconscious and the superconscious. The greater the power of attention and devotion, the farther they can usher the vibrations of different affirmations to their subconscious or superconscious destinations. Cures
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
paying the least attention to her severe remark—and
~ Leo Tolstoy