Thom Yorke Quotes

We usually don't look. We overlook.

I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.

Some players listen with one ear only.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Out of sight is out of mind.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.