Quotes About Noticing

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

Try to be one of those people on whom nothing is lost.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I actually noticed how much I love my Sonicare because my friend got me a Quip, which I'll take with me when I'm traveling, but is not as great a toothbrush.

Audience members will notice the most salient (because of its striking color, size, or other eye-catching characteristic) line first and interpret it as the most important.

When somebody notices me in the slightest, I can feel the eyes - boom-boom - as soon as they pass.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

I love to write down things I notice about people or things I've overheard people saying that are interesting. I love people-watching, and I love taking the time to notice the small things.

Awareness makes all the difference.

Don't listen to her, Scott. She notices things.

God's will and your will are the same, whether you notice it or not. There's no mistake in the universe. It's not possible to have the concept "mistake" unless you're comparing what is with what isn't. Without the story in your mind, it's all perfect. No mistake.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

People think I'm a keen birdwatcher, but I don't go out of my way to look at birds. I'm not Bill Oddie. But I do know which are which. I keep my eyes open.

He was a rightie, I couldn't help but notice.

like, "I happened to notice when I put these together that . 

In many cases, the problem isn't about having or noticing insights; it is about acting on them. The organization lacks the willpower to make changes.

Queen will arrange to view the room as it is decorated and the table laid. If a lampshade is crooked or a lightbulb missing, she will notice straight away and draw attention to the fault. In this way, she lets her staff know she is not taking them or their efforts for granted.

I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion.

It's Your World...Pay Attention

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill....

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A large disaster erases those details. We need poetry for nourishment and for noticing, for the way language and imagery reach comfortably into experience, holding and connecting it more successfully than any news channel we could name.

The force of your gaze has a weight. Even sunlight resting on the ground weighs something. Your attention presses against its object, your eye projects it like a headlight. There's a flip side to it. Learn to go down inside yourself, dim the force of your presence. People's eyes will skate right over you. They'll see you; they just won't notice you. This works even if they're looking for you.