Noticing Quotes - Page 5

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

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, Hero

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Dad, Advice

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smile, Father, Character

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1419, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Mean, Thinking, Light

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Depression, Patience, Mindfulness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

  Charles Yu

  Heart, Two, Stories

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.135, Vintage

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• Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Laughing, Lust, Elbows

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• The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

  John Green

  Real, Hero, Vaccines

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.

  Gena Showalter

  Warrior, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better." "What?" He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?" I'm pretty sure I squealed.

  Kiersten White

  Real, School, Might

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• He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

  Nora Roberts

  Looks, Cop

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• Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Thinking, Jumping

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• I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

  John Green

  Distance, Safe, Want

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.32, Penguin

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• Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.

  Seth

  Art, Offering, Understanding

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• I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

  Steven Spielberg

  People, Tools, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new.

  Seth

  People, Creative, Together

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

  John Sexton

  Opportunity

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• You just realize that you can't turn a lefthand corner in a right posture without exposing some part of your body, and so it was really me just noticing the exposure I had, and it made me start doing and practicing the switching.

  Steven Seagal

  Body, Realizing, Posture

  "Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Philosophy, Mean, People

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• I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Style, Fossils

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Tiles, Stuff

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• Ever since our country came into existence, we have always assumed that we are better than the Arabs. But we are noticing that these are no longer backward people. Suddenly we are confronted with a new situation - the fact that the Arab world maybe thinks just as democratically as we do, perhaps even more democratically. Where does this leave us? After all, we're supposed to be the only democracy in the Middle East!

  Tom Segev

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Do not lose your temper with those who sin. Do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbor and judging it, as we usually do. Everyone will give an answer for himself before God. Especially, do not look with evil intention on the sins of those older than you, with whom you have no business. But correct your own sins, your own heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

  Brian Eno

  Airports, Play, People

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Flower, Autumn

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