Quotes About Noticing

I noticed, but I didn't pay attention.

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing Fuck

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing And I'm moved, it's so beautiful.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

You keep everything under observation and that's why you don't notice anything.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Buy a small notebook and begin carrying it with you wherever you go. When you see great design, make a note of it.

It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first.

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing (..) You see, but you do not observe.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind." Trust

partner, Dr. Watson, "You see, but you do not observe.

Its sweet when someone knows every detail about you. Not because you keep reminding them, but because they pay attention.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

People don't pay attention to ninety percent of what they see.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

All he could do was try to focus, to put his attention on the woman right in front of him and the angle of her shoulder that meant she was about to shift her bag. To the man about to speak to his friend. To the little girl who looked a lot like Kate—no, push that away, no time now to think about Kate—reaching up for her mother's hand. When

Most people have a perceptual tripwire which registers the trespass of another's focused interest.