Quotes About Noticing

The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

Catherine Fowler has a car so pretty that if she drove it back down to her little town in Mississippi, they would hang the car. John White noticed. John White said, "You called out an ambition hidden in every lynching: a desire to slaughter our beauty. Ofays are made crazy by our beauty." I have committed to be beautiful as often and as publicly as I can. And I have determined to help more of mine see and be their beauty. John White conspired with me to achieve this.

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

If we just paid closer attention to the details of our daily lives, nothing that happens to us would surprise us.

first-class noticer"—cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, experiencing "enchanting reality" as a new and fortuitous gift—is crucial to any creative process.

You observe a lot by watching.

You can see a lot by just looking.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

Here's a cool exercise: Right now, look around wherever you are and count the number of things you see that are red. Take about a minute and count them all. Now stop, look back at this page without taking your eyes off of it, and try to think of everything around you that's yellow. There's probably a ton of yellow, but you didn't see it because you were looking for red.

Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.

must remember to tell Peter that. I'll go to the station on Saturday morning, and watch for someone to describe perfectly. I won't miss a thing – not even the colour of his tie! I'll just show the others how good I am at noticing every single thing about somebody I see just for a minute.' Peter was thinking about what he and Jack could do too, as he lay in

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That's pretty much all the info you need.

I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn't noticing the audience. I didn't want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh.

When people want to get appreciation and fear they are not, their behavior becomes more attention getting, forcing others to notice them.

People look, they don't see.

Mr Mudd, you see but you do not observe.

Big things are often just small things that are noticed.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice." The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal - no one will see it. But when a button is missing - everyone sees that.

You only see what you're paying attention to. You're likely to trail bear tracks all the way back to the bear.