Jane Jacobs Quotes

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People don't care about questionnaires.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?

I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.

People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.