Noticing Quotes

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)
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
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. View quote
Douglas Hurd
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. View quote
Eric Hoffer
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing-thanks very much;' you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things. View quote
Russell Crowe
Very little detective work, he was noticing, could be accomplished before a crime occurred. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million." View quote
O. Henry
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. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. ... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. (George Pólya)
I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really. View quote
Ray Bradbury
[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh. View quote
Anton Chekhov
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible. View quote
Leo Strauss
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a vertiable revolution takes place. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. View quote
Tana French
People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind. View quote
Giambattista Vico
The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them. View quote
Allison Pearson
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. View quote
Paul Watzlawick
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. View quote
Diane Mott Davidson
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. (Lois Wyse)
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing. View quote
Matthew Vaughn
Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done. View quote
Ray Davies
Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird. View quote
Shane West
One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible. View quote
Thylias Moss