Attention-Inattention

Attention is like a narrow-mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop. (Joseph Joubert)

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. (Shakespeare)

Calling attention isn't the same thing as explaining. (Ashbery)

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to say to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. (Wollstonecraft)