Noticing Quotes

• Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Happiness, Happy, High Heels

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• Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

  Anne Lamott

  Faith, Light, Return

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.257, Penguin

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• One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• You notice. And noticing, you live.

  John Graves

  Life, Live Life, Noticing You

  John Graves (2016). “From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas”, p.163, University of Texas Press

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• When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Good Things, Our Lives, Seems

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• The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

  Ralph Linton

  Water, Perception, Would Be

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• Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Peace

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• Photography begins not in the camera but in the
  mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things clearly and differently, and
  sharing that vision with others. I have developed my
  vision and my photographic craft in order to bring
  the beauty of nature to light in a fresh way that
  can inspire and nourish people.

  Bill Atkinson

  Photography, Real, Eye

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• We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

  Ira Glass

  Empathy, Joy, World

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• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!"

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Sarcastic, Sex

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• When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

  Douglas Harding

  Doubt, Looks, Way

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• There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

  Teresa Heinz

  May, Things To Do, Values

  Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.

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• I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Space, Things I Love, Gaps

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• A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

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• We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike.

  Dean Frazer

  Differences, Forever

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• 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.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Practice, Differences

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Food, Vegetables

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

  Gregory Maguire

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• Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Giving, Feelings

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• The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

  John Tukey

  Data, Drawing, Unexpected

  John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division

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• The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Clothes, Perfect

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

  Anna Kendrick

  College, Thinking, Years

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• Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Home, Understanding, Deep Thought

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.

  John Marsden

  Writing, Heart, Mean

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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