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Tag Name "Inattention" (22)

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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
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Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, This is good enough for you. The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.
Florence King
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Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
Gaston Bachelard
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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
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Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.
Ilana Mercer
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Adolescents sometimes say...My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk. Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.
Laurence Steinberg
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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
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
Robert Jordan
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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
Twyla Tharp
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the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
Abigail McCarthy
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
Amy Tan
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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
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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
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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana
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The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and so disrespectful, by inattention, to people's movements-that we need some counterforce to avoid being crushed into submission.
Howard Zinn
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I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Jonathan Swift
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Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel. I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?
Laurie R. King
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Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson
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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
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
William James
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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
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In India, there are real consequences to inattention drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
Bharati Mukherjee