Noticing Quotes - Page 9

• If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren't going right.

  Sergio Garcia

  Golf, Games, Differences

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Made

  Rachel Held Evans (2010). “Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions”, p.102, Harper Collins

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• What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

  Philip Pullman

  Morning, Writing, Years

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• As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

  Beth Ditto

  Thanksgiving, Football, Running

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• I'm not trying to be coy, but I think everyone notices these things like skin color but some people are more aware that they are noticing them than others, maybe. If that makes sense.

  Danzy Senna

  Thinking, People, Skins

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We've been led to believe that we have a very dumbed-down society - and that people are not thinking and are just sort of interested in escapism. However, if you look at this young generation, what I've been noticing is that they are extremely compassionate. They are extremely globally aware and interested, and they want to participate in making the world a better place - but they don't know how. As adults we are failing them by not providing them with any sort of guidance, any map, or any blueprint to do this stuff.

  Kamala Lopez

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.

  Geoff Dyer

  People, Aging, Conscious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

  Richard Whately

  Friendship, Past, Tree

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.299

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• The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of your themes and interests. You don't want writing tricks where you make the same joke every time, but you do start to notice what consumes your mind, or what drives you.

  Nathan Englander

  Book, Writing, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to follow certain rules. Nothing in Élysée Palace should become habitual, because routine lends one a deceptive feeling of security. You begin not noticing certain things and lose your focus on what's important. Uncertainty and change keep you attentive. This place and, to a certain extent, my office, help me avoid developing habits.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Office, Focus, Feelings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.

  Iain Sinclair

  Giving, People, Energy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.

  Dana Spiotta

  Past, Technology, Impact

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Humanity has to start noticing that we are One. We are connected with the net of beings who are the life of this planet - and before we take them all down, we ought to see what we can do to preserve this unique and extraordinary family. That's what I think the wounded healer would do. We're all wounded in one way or another. The question is, can we heal?

  Alex Grey

  Unique, Thinking, Humanity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.

  Michael Shannon

  People, World, Fortune

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

  Max Blumenthal

  Reality, Violence, Radicalism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

  Douglas Hurd

  Favour, Politician, Should

  "Escaping from History". Speech in Berlin, www.kas.de. April 18, 2005.

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• When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

  Peter McWilliams

  Gratitude, Hurt, Attitude

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• To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of photographic reportage. And in the thousandth of a second that follows, to take the photo of what one has seen - that is the practical side of reportage.

  Martin Munkacsi

  People, Principles, Sides

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• As we started working with leaders, providing them with assessment feedback, noticing the impact it was having on them, and their teams, a real story unfolded, and the book All the Leader You Can Be became what it is now - a guide to leaders who want to understand their strengths, and also appreciate how to enhance their leadership.

  Suzanne Bates

  Real, Team, Book

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I am noticing that we're getting more and more people - and I don't know how to handle this - who come to me saying, "Would you pray for my son? Would you pray for my daughter?" I've been saying, "Pray for them yourself." But they don't want that because they think I've got something that's greater than what they have. I keep saying, "I don't! Not really. I got the title 'minister; but I don't want to exploit you. You do it, too." I think the way to solve it is to do it together. We're going to pray in community, you see?

  Cecil Williams

  Daughter, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I’m not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person’s face from the hat and be like “Do you see that!” It’s about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.

  Laura Owens

  People, Shadow, World

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Running, Caring

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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