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• For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

  Alexandra Potter

  Fleeting, Crowds, Splits

  Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Depression, Patience, Mindfulness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smile, Father, Character

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1419, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Laughing, Lust, Elbows

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• Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn’t do. I couldn’t go running to mum and dad and I can’t compare my marriage to anybody else’s, we all follow our own rules.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Dad, Advice

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• 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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• Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Thinking, Jumping

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

  Nora Roberts

  Looks, Cop

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• Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better." "What?" He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?" I'm pretty sure I squealed.

  Kiersten White

  Real, School, Might

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• Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.

  Gena Showalter

  Warrior, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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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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• Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Reality, Flying

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• You don't know, but I'm noticing.

  David Levithan

  Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.83, Egmont UK

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• The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Mistake, Believe

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

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• 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 Polya

  Attitude, Opportunity, Opposites

  George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”

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• We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Running, Long, Unhappy

  Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Shinoda Bolen M. D. (2011). “Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

  Giambattista Vico

  People, Mind, Firsts

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• 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.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 3:381, June 27, 1839.

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• Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Country, Thinking, People

  Thomas Bernhard (2010). “The Loser: A Novel”, p.28, Vintage

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• Political correctness is a war on noticing.

  Steve Sailer

  War, Political, Correctness

  "World War T" by Steve Sailer, takimag.com. January 22, 2014.

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• There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

  Norton Juster

  Eye, Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

  Marge Piercy

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.274, Open Road Media

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• Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

  Eli Pariser

  Motivation, Inspiration, Links

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Focus

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• ... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Appreciate, Wonder

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