Quotes About Noticing

The positive effects of war on mental health were first noticed by the great sociologist Emile Durkheim, who found that when European countries went to war, suicide rates dropped.

Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It's a Purple Cow.

For years now we've begun to notice detrimental changes in the curvatures of the spines of elementary-age schoolkids, who have been paying the price for overloaded backpacks.

never seem to miss anything.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Maine is not a death cult. I mean, it is, but it's a slow one. It creeps in like the tide, and without your even noticing, the ground around you is swallowed by water until it's gone

When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us. The color of a tie. The shade of a cloth. It was really quite a wonderful way to learn how to look, to notice things and to appreciate what is around you.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won't see it. It is, as Ruskin says, 'not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.' . . . I have to say the words, describe what I'm seeing. . . . But if I want to notice the lesser cataclysms of valley life, I have to maintain in my head a running description of the present.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

El mundo esta lleno de cosas evidentes en las que nadie se fija ni por casualidad

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Doyle

I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

El mundo está lleno de cosas obvias, que nadie por casualidad alguna vez observa.

We keep searching for things all our life, yet seldom do we notice them!

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.

It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice

Good photography is not about 'Zone Printing' or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see, or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.