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Quotes About Noticing

You can observe a lot by just watching.
~ Yogi Berra
She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.
~ Marisa de los Santos
Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how
~ Mark Batterson
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
~ Mark Haddon
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
~ Anatole France
It's not what you do that counts, it's the quality of your attention.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~
~ Mary E. Pearson
Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.
~ Mary Karr
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
4. PERCEPTIVENESS: Send them to their room to get dressed and they'll never make it. Something along the way—perhaps a commercial on the television—will catch their attention as they walk by and they'll forget about getting dressed. It can take ten minutes to get them from the house to the car. They notice everything—the latest oil spill, the white feather in the bird's nest, and the dew in the spider web. They're often accused of not listening.
~ Unknown
Without quite noticing it, I had slid downward to a place where, as Styron put it, "all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?
~ Melina Marchetta
Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
~ Michael Chabon
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
~ Michael Connelly
There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.
~ Morley Callaghan
Don't be so poor to the point that you can't afford to pay attention.
~ Unknown
The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention—Remembering every step you make or anything that's around you.
~ Unknown
perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…
~ Nancy Holder
It is easy to leave, once you are used to leaving. Easy to feel the moment of it approaching, to sense the loosening of the ropes that bound you to the earth. One becomes adept in noticing the absolute apex of love or belief from which it will inevitably decline. There comes a point when one can even begin to love leaving, the only constant we carry with us. The man who wanders forever is not cursed, he is blessed.
~ Naomi Alderman
Bright green eyes, long lashes, and a chiseled body. The combination is enough that even I, the notoriously sexless Rayne Garner, had to take notice.
~ Unknown
Descriptive Praise is about noticing and commenting on exactly what your child has done that is right or just okay, or even what he hasn't done wrong.
~ Unknown
we don't notice a single sign or display we pass until that mission is accomplished.
~ Paco Underhill
No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.
~ Patricia C. Wrede