Noticing Quotes - Page 6

• I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Happiness, Things In Life, Littles

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (1989). “14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book”, Workman Publishing

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• In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Writing, Humility

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• We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Worst Enemy, Ideas, Perfection

  "Emmanuelle Chriqui Shares Her Beauty Secrets". Interview with Catherine Quinn O'neill, www.allure.com. January 17, 2013.

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• There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

  Taylor Schilling

  Loneliness, Struggle, Desire

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• No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

  Susanna Thompson

  Hair, Ponytails, Able

  "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I learned something then. And I believe it still. 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. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't it more that is required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America the true patriots are those who dare speak truth through power.

  Teresa Heinz

  Lonely, Believe, Land

  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'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Nba, Special

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• You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

  Steve Albini

  Naked, Attention, Helping

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2000.

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• If you are noticing what you appreciate and noticing what you are grateful for, you can't be noticing what you don't like.

  Michael Losier

  Grateful, Appreciate, Ifs

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• What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

  Yoko Ono

  Attitude, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

  Homer Hickam

  Book, Reading, Track

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best about humans, and there are not many other things besides this, is that humans make culture. If you're an artist, a big part of folk is noticing what other people are doing and incorporating it and changing it - the way that songs warp and change over time.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, School, College

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teasing the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. "Can it be true that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?'
  'Of course not,' replied Bohr, 'but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe it or not.'

  Niels Bohr

  Country, Wall, Believe

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• Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

  Hiromi

  Mean, Today, Life Is

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• I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

  Wesley Morris

  Color, White, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.

  Tana French

  Distance, Real, Heart

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• Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.

  Junot Diaz

  Color, People, Levels

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us).

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Mistake, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

  Dale Jamieson

  Sight, Mind, Movement

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.

  Dale Jamieson

  Animal, Acting, Awful

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

  Tilda Swinton

  Baby, Motherhood, Remember

  "Tilda Swinton: 'I didn't speak for five years'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I'd only started noticing that something had gone wrong when I got a call from Naomi [Campbell], she called me and said, "You gotta do something about it, it's really bad, they're not using any models of color."

  Bethann Hardison

  Color, Gone, Said

  Source: time.com

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• Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Practice, Knowing, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Mar 07, 2013

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• Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength.

  Oliver Sacks

  Passion, Dedication, Smell

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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