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In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. -- Mark Twain
I never knew any man cured of inattention. -- Jonathan Swift
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. -- George Santayana
The only thing that is not art is inattention -- Marcel Duchamp
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. -- Amy Tan
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention. -- Twyla Tharp
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension. -- Abigail McCarthy
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. -- Robert Bresson
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. -- Robert Bresson
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself. -- William James
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. -- Laurence Steinberg
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose -- Amy Tan
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. -- Daniel Webster
Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention. -- Daniel Goleman
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation. -- Norbert Wiener
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
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. -- C. S. Lewis
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken. -- Emily Post
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much. -- Samuel Richardson
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. -- George Washington
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut. -- Dean Koontz
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories. -- Robert J. Shiller
I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress. -- Masiela Lusha
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress. -- Paul Feyerabend
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
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'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep. -- Marty Nemko
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
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. -- Kofi Annan

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