Noticing Things Quotes

• 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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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Function, Noticing

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• Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Happiness, Happy, High Heels

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Humanity, Care

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• Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Nonsense

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Grandma

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.9, Harmony

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• You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Noticing You, Matter

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• 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.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Eye, Mind, Lines

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  Naomie Harris

  Book, Grateful, Writing

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• It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

  Edie Falco

  People, Used, Hard

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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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• 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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• 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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• They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, World, Patterns

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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