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Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.
— Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
— Robert Bresson
The teeth of the smile evidenced a clinical depressive's classic inattention
to oral hygiene. — David Foster Wallace
to oral hygiene. — David Foster Wallace
There is no danger: he is suffering from drowsiness, that disease which attacks so many minds which have been deceived.
— Boethius
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ... Attention has no centre.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only thing that is not art is inattention
— Marcel Duchamp
The main dysfunctions of agile team are absence of trust, inattention to results, lack of commitment,
— Thiyagarajan Perumal
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.
— Robert Bresson
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
— Helen Rowland
The apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
— Abigail McCarthy
The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
— Mark Twain
If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.
— Sally Robinson
Orange is the happiest color.
— Frank Sinatra
For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device.1
— Randall Munroe
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
— Bharati Mukherjee
To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
— George Santayana
Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
— David Richards
It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.
— Olivia Sudjic
Adolescents sometimes say ... "My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.
— Laurence Steinberg
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
— William James
In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.
— Suzanne Berne
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.
— Frank Moore Colby
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
— Jonathan Swift
A cough is the basic sign of inattention. Musicians never, in my experience, cough when playing in public.
— Charles Rosen