Quotes About Noticing

What people aren't looking for, they rarely see.

after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them...

I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

Not to mention wicked eyebrows. Lily noticed eyebrows the way some people paid attention to shoulders or lips

A veces uno no se da cuenta de las cosas más obvias si alguien no le llama la atención sobre ellas.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

You notice things." "A sexburger like her I notice." The tip of his tongue protruded between his teeth, which were a good grade of plastic.

But times of solitude and silence are not times for judging. They are times for noticing — noticing what is true about us in a given moment and then being in God's presence with the things we've noticed.

I hardly hear them any more because I hardly listen.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost

And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everyting, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?