Inattentiveness Quotes

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.

What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

I am unobservant.

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

The danger lies in forgetting.

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

The greatest sin is carelessness.

I made the mistakes not because I'm tired.

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

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