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Quotes About Inattention

looking at her but not really seeing her, and his baby girl sure as heaven not seeing her daddy either
~ David Baldacci
The teeth of the smile evidenced a clinical depressive's classic inattention to oral hygiene.
~ David Foster Wallace
Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.
~ Lionel Shriver
Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy—the fact that other people simply weren't interested.
~ Lionel Shriver
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has been resorting to the 'It's racism' dodge for years now in order to shut down scrutiny of his determined inattention to the catastrophe of Vancouver's housing crisis.
~ Terry Glavin
Cultivating awareness takes effort. Changing the habits of inattention and distraction we have developed over a lifetime is hard work.
~ Unknown
Sometimes even good old Homer nods.
~ Horace
People never notice anything.
~ J. D. Salinger
But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest. His gaze passed over her as if she were not there.
~ Madeline Miller
Separately from short sleep duration, habitual loud snoring is associated with hyperactivity, depression, and inattention. Additionally, habitual snoring has been shown to be a factor in fragmented sleep.
~ Unknown
As for Frank—who cares?
~ Unknown
Fail #3: Ignoring
~ Mark Goulston
He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.
~ Michael Finkel
Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Today, we know that in the era of the Internet, focused attention has become the rarest commodity in the world. Everyone is speaking, no one is listening, and the resulting familiarity breeds inattention. It is therefore difficult to break through the many levels of resistance and make fresh sense to people.
~ Os Guinness
What if this had been caused by your inattention?
~ Unknown