Quotes About Noticing

Pay especially close attention to the seemingly trivial details and the little discrepancies.

You can observe a lot by watching.

People often forget to look at something right in front of them.

Everyone in the room was silent for a moment. Annie stared openmouthed at the man beneath her. So he'd noticed her after all. Her ego moved up a notch. Not that he was her type, mind you. Not that she had a type. But Wes looked, well, he looked a little dangerous, a little rough around the edges. Besides, she'd sworn off men. Still . . . Wes made her feel sort of feminine, like she should go upstairs and put on a pair of panty hose. Not a good sign.

The best couples, or the most successful couples, are the ones with a really low negativity threshold. These are the couples that don't let anything go unnoticed and allow each other some room to complain.

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

David foster Wallace: '...the revelatory power of freakishly thorough noticing, of corralling and controlling detail.[...] he trains you to study the world through the lens of his prose.' NYTimes, 7 Feb 2016

The antidote for mind wandering is meta-awareness, attention to attention itself, as in the ability to notice that you are not noticing what you should, and correcting your focus. Mindfulness makes this crucial attention muscle stronger.12

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

our experience is what we attend to

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

Because she lives in a state of alarm, she notices things that others miss.

He had often noticed that six months' oblivion amounts to newspaper death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a man wants it, than rest, profound as the grave.

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

You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to

It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if the noticing is fear and disgust.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

A writer's work is to witness things.

Art is about paying attention.

In fiction classes... you find that epiphany has a pretty high rate of occurrence... But when you tell your own story honestly, that epiphany thing is rare... The only changes are emergencies or blessings: when you wake up, notice the surroundings, then fall back, and wander more. And if you're lucky you end up walking again through a life where you're never called on to do much noticing.

To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.