Gary Hamel

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

American Businessman

James Surowiecki

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

American Journalist

James Harvey Robinson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

American Historian

John Dingell

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

American Politician

Abe Fortas

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

American Judge

Will Self

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

English Author

Richard Harris Barham

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

English Comedian

Using 'heedless' implies negative judgment towards someone's actions or attitude.

Negative Connotation

'Heedless' often suggests that bad results could follow because important things were ignored.

Possible Outcomes

'Heedless' describes a lack of attention but doesn't always mean it was intentional.

Inattentiveness

Emphasizes lack of concern for the effects of one's actions, often leading to problems.

Carelessness

Shows someone disregarding clear warnings or indications that the outcome may be negative.

Ignoring Warnings

Indicates a failure to consider the longer-term or wider effects of an action.

Short-sightedness

 there's a time for conciliation, there's a time for confrontation, but it's never a time to freeze up like a deer in the headlights, and it's never a time to lash out in heedless, thoughtless anger. The lesson in this is that when it comes to race relations, sometimes, we've got to know how to pray,