Quotes About Noticing

Or maybe desire kicked in when it pleased without noticing the rules we lived and died by.

Nie wiem, czy o to wÅ'aÅ›nie chciaÅ' mnie poprosi?, ale to rzecz, której wszyscy pragnÄ… - ?eby ktoÅ› zobaczyÅ', ?e dzieje siÄ™ im krzywda, i gdzieÅ› to odnotowaÅ'.

She kept sneaking looks at him. He had strong, chiseled features, his jaw softened by a day or two's growth of beard. And those shoulders. She'd always been a sucker for a guy's strong shoulders. Big square hands that looked as if they did harder work than writing biographies. No wedding band. At thirty, Isabel couldn't help noticing a detail like that.

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

We frequently miss opportunities because we aren't aware of them.

If I hear a consonant I look around.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

Have you ever noticed the fact that once you begin to think about something, you see it everywhere? Anyone who has ever begun the search for a new automobile can attest, from the moment you Google it, you begin to pass that model in traffic everywhere. Of course, they were there the whole time; we simply didn't have them at top of mind.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Being lucky in love might be less a matter of luck and more a matter of paying attention.

She could not be said to dislike Colonel Trumpet so much as not to notice he was there.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

People notice only what you tell them to notice," he said. "And then only if you remind them.

I thought, Holy shit, who is paying attention?" Thus

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.—is sure to be noticed. —Søren Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death

does the novelty and power of this sort of radical noticing impress women as much as men? I tend to doubt it.)

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

If the watchers in the city had remarked that Cyrion was as handsome as the Arch-Demon himself, they would not have been the first to do so.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it.

Promethean minds believe themselves to be creatures of chance, moving freely in a vacuum and capable of "self creation",all within the framework of an existence devoid of meaning;it seems to them that the world is absurd, but no one notices—and this is typical—the absurdity of admitting the appearance within an absurd world of a being regarded as capable of noticing the absurdity.