Absent Minded Quotes

• Que el amante sea desgraciado, loco, despistado.
  Alguien sobrio se preocupará de que los acontecimientos vayan mal.
  Deja que el amante sea.

  Rumi

  Amor, Vida, Espiritual

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 4: "Spring Giddiness", p. 46, 1995.

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• No soy distraído. Es la presencia de ánimo lo que hace que no sea consciente de todo lo demás.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Divertido, Vida, Presencia De Mente

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• The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

  Saul Bellow

  Secret, Innocence, Guilty

  1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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• I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

  Eminem

  Significa, Esperar, Mente

  "Song: "Cum On Everybody"". 1999.

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• Debo de estar volviéndome despistado. Siempre que me quejo de que las cosas ya no son lo que eran, me olvido de incluirme.

  George Burns

  Funny, Witty, Complaining

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• Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Water, Meditation, Reverie

  Herman Melville (2002). "Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic", p.13, Spinner Publications

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• Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Decision, Inevitable, Seems

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• I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Believe, Brooding, Agnosticism

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• Los mejores generales que he conocido eran... hombres estúpidos o despistados. Un buen comandante del ejército no sólo no necesita ninguna cualidad especial, sino que, por el contrario, necesita la ausencia de los más altos y mejores atributos humanos: amor, poesía, ternura y duda inquisitiva filosófica. Debe ser limitado, estar firmemente convencido de que lo que está haciendo es muy importante (de lo contrario no tendrá suficiente paciencia), y sólo entonces será un líder valiente. Dios no quiera que sea humano, que ame, que se compadezca, que piense en lo justo y en lo injusto.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Amor, estupidez, ejército

  Guerra y paz bk. 9, cap. 11 (1865 - 1869) (traducción de Louise y Aylmer Maude)

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• There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

  Mary Oliver

  People, Creative, World

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• Dame la palabra adecuada y el acento adecuado y moveré el mundo.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moverse, Dar, Mundo

  Joseph Conrad (2015). "Cuentos marinos de Joseph Conrad - Colección Premium: Un paria de las islas, El negro del 'Narciso', Una sonrisa de fortuna, Tifón y más: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author's Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)", p.1113, e-artnow

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• Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Use, Levers, Mathematics

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4269, e-artnow

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

  Matt Dillon

  Creeps, Absent

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• The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Perfect, Lines

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Morning, Men, People

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

  Charles Simic

  Color, People, Luck

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

  Joya

  Doors, Classic, Hours

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• I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

  Alexei Sayle

  Mean, Necks, Forget

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• I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

  Sigrid Undset

  Education, School, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perezosos, débiles, pretenciosos, pedantes, elitistas: estos son algunos de los epítetos que acaban asociándose al erudito distraído, al lector poco vidente, al gusano de los libros, al empollón.

  Alberto Manguel

  Libro, Nerd, Pobre

  "Una historia de la lectura". Libro de Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Lluvia, Hombres, Ríos

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Cuando un indio Pueblo no se siente de buen humor, se mantiene alejado del consejo de hombres. Cuando un antiguo romano tropezaba en el umbral al salir de casa, renunciaba a sus planes del día. Esto nos parece insensato, pero en las condiciones primitivas de la vida, un presagio así nos inclina al menos a ser precavidos. Cuando no tengo pleno control de mí mismo, mis movimientos corporales pueden estar sometidos a cierta restricción; mi atención se distrae con facilidad; estoy algo despistado. Como resultado, golpeo contra algo, tropiezo, dejo caer algo u olvido algo.

  Carl Jung

  Otoño, Hombres, Casa

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• The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

  Nathalia Crane

  Tails, Lines, Bees

  Nathalia Crane (1925). "El chico del conserje y otros poemas".

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Lying, Cat

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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