Neil Postman Quotes

When you're not needed somewhere, it never feels great.

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

People dont pay attention until they have to

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~

We pay far too much attention to externals.

Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.