Inattention Quotations

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

Applaud us when we prevail, correct us when we fail; but, above all, do not let this indispensable, irreplaceable institution wither, languish or perish as a result of Member States' indifference, inattention or financial starvation.

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.