Top 1200 Noticing Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

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

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good.

If my kids were to make a talking doll of me as a mother, one of my recorded phrases would be 'I will throw that in the trash.' 'If you don't put that down right now, I will throw that in the trash.' It's very funny to hear myself say certain things - like noticing which phrases become the most popular to use.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

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

From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

One time, a fan jumped on the back of our vehicle, and without noticing, we drove away. I was pretty frightened, actually.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

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.

If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.

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

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

I quite like sort of being able to walk down the street with no one noticing.

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.

I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

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.

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

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.

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

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

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

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

I started noticing a lot of big companies are bored with ads; they feel sort of lost in the advertising world. They're not into magazines anymore.

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

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

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

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.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

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.

It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.