Noticing Quotes - Page 6

• I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

  Tilda Swinton

  Baby, Motherhood, Remember

  "Tilda Swinton: 'I didn't speak for five years'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength.

  Oliver Sacks

  Passion, Dedication, Smell

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  People, Majority, Poverty

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• Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Science, Men, Fire

  "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.

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• Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Plain Language, Imagination

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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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• 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.

  Brian Barry

  Two, Missing, Would Be

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

  John Green

  Hipster, Past, Ought

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

  Cindy Sherman

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Cindy Sherman: Me, myself and I" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light

  Julie Christie

  Light, Beverly Hills, London

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• I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Hate, Dark, People

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• Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird

  Shane West

  Girl, Senior, Years

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• Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Practice, Knowing, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Mar 07, 2013

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• What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"

  Yoko Ono

  Attitude, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

  Homer Hickam

  Book, Reading, Track

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• 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.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.

  Julie Dillon

  Art, School, College

  Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com

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• 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.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Flower, Autumn

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• In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

  James Tate

  Book, Writing, Humility

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

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Worst Enemy, Ideas, Perfection

  "Emmanuelle Chriqui Shares Her Beauty Secrets". Interview with Catherine Quinn O'neill, www.allure.com. January 17, 2013.

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• There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

  Taylor Schilling

  Loneliness, Struggle, Desire

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• No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

  Susanna Thompson

  Hair, Ponytails, Able

  "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't it more that is required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America the true patriots are those who dare speak truth through power.

  Teresa Heinz

  Lonely, Believe, Land

  Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.

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

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Nba, Special

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