When a person doesn’t listen to someone who is speaking it’s either because they are thinking about nothing or thinking about something else other than what the speaker is saying.
 Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
Topic listening thought
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry
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