Noticing Quotations

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

As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

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

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.

If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.

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.

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

It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

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.

If you watch a lot of television, the pacing, the quick cutting is so frenetic, but it doesn't always make it funnier. What I'm noticing is that when things are allowed to unspool more slowly, younger crowds really like it. They really appreciate it.

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

I don't ever want to fit my music into one genre, because every song needs to develop the way it wants to. It has to have its own feel and vibe. I'm noticing that songs can be way across the spectrum and still fit together and tell a story.

If we keep winning on Sundays, ... people are definitely going to start noticing us.

She is just an athlete. I am sure they are noticing her now.

When the sheriff came, that's when you really started noticing more of a difference. Ever since they started cracking down on everything, things got better.

Guys were noticing that their team was tired and we were trying to take advantage of it with some quick breaks. We don't usually do that too often.

He's been good ever since he's been here. All this season. All his career. Everybody is noticing now, and everybody is playing great.

People are noticing I'm a good shot blocker. I used to see people going full throttle toward the goal. Now, I see more head fakes and stutter steps.

My wife Ciera and I can stand face-to-face in our kitchen and stare into each other's eyes and talk for three hours without noticing that any time has passed. She is the kind of gal I spent a lifetime daydreaming about. She is an actor and a creative companion.

I thought I was getting into their heads. I started noticing that they were trying to find ways to get around me.

It is nice to be recognized, but realistically it's just a poll and it doesn't decide where we are finishing. But being in our third year, it is nice and it shows that other programs are noticing that we are doing well.

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.

I think we will see a little bit more of that now. Some of the games we've struggled in, we've seen match-up zones. So teams are scouting us, noticing that. But I think the more we see, the better we'll get against it.

I thought Boucher was the best player on the ice that game. He was always around the puck. I kept noticing him on what seemed like every play.

It all started to occur in the '70s, and by the '90s biologists were noticing some pretty serious damage to the habitat on the breeding colonies at several locations in the Arctic. They were getting together at various conferences and realized that they were seeing the same thing.

Trojans are different from viruses because they can lurk in PCs without anyone noticing and can spy on the computer user's activities then send this information back anywhere in the world.

Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them.

We have been visibly noticing in the last year that the strong New Zealand dollar has made New Zealand as a destination more expensive.

You can have nice--some people might say interruptions, or things that are bothering you. On the other hand, it's a way to keep noticing what's happening in your business.

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

We were noticing an increase in these problems. We couldn't go to freshman orientation anymore and tell parents there were no problems with the old system.

When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

When you've won an Oscar, everyone is really scrutinizing what you do, including every movie you do. So if it's bad, they're noticing it more.

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

At the time most of these studies were done, few Western women were eating tofu, but many were getting soy without noticing it.

It would make Oakdale's season to beat us and knock us out of first place. I believe they're feeling like they can do that. We've been noticing their scores and they're playing people a lot tougher. We're going to get their absolute best.

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

We've had very mild winter weather so far. We haven't heard a lot of customers complaining about their bills. Unless we get a really strong cold snap, it will be until the hot, humid weather returns before people begin noticing a change in their bills.

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

You started noticing the crowds building day after day,

I'm sure that folks are noticing the progress being made on the new Lowe's for Framingham. We anticipate that the exterior work and road improvements will be completed by summer, and then we'll work on finishing out the inside of the building.

I'm teaching a couple of these guys how to punch. What I'm noticing is how many tickets they sold. I don't want to be too much of a diehard boxing purist.

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.

I'm noticing again and again and again, they're saying this is a good living room record. It's not a good radio record.

I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience.

I'm noticing fewer buyers, and I know some people are holding out to see if prices will drop.

The bond market is noticing that the capacity usage rate is rising with this additional production, and to some people's minds that gets us nearer to the day of Fed tightening.

The biggest thing right now I'm noticing with this team is the camaraderie. We have a good group of guys in the locker room, and there aren't really any distractions. Nobody's coming out to practice late. Nobody's in meetings just talking because they want to talk. Everybody's listening. When Coach says something, they're listening. That's how it's supposed to be, and that's a positive thing to see.

I didn't even know we were ranked, to be honest. It shows somebody is noticing how hard we've been working.

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.

They indicate a real talent for noticing what's going on around her. And she does it with her heart. She cares about other people deeply and connects with her heart.

It's younger and younger that men are noticing it, and caring about it. They heard their dads worrying about it.

It looked like Rafael was getting a little upset towards the end of the match noticing that my fans were pretty vocal, ... I'm proud that they never make it personal and they never do anything too negative toward the other player...maybe it helps that it was during the day and they maybe didn't have quite as many Heinekens today. That helps, I think.

Anything remotely close will be enough. I'm looking forward to noticing the sense of wonder in the eyes of these young adults, whether that be in performance in a concert, on a street some place or coming back from a home stay.

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.

The CIA is blinded, too, by the squeamishness that many liberal-minded people feel about noticing the dark side of third world cultures.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

For me, I'm noticing about the 30-hour mark is when the soreness sets in. I was able to work a lot of that out and come back today.

It's something you'd have trouble noticing by yourself.

They are going to be looking back on the last two weeks and noticing the small caps have come back to life.

There were three pandemics in the last century. Most people alive today lived through two of them without really noticing them. This wasn't a major trauma to societies or economies or even to health systems. So pandemics can occur which have relatively minor effects.

They're noticing it all over. It's been a real difficult year in terms of use.

I appreciate people noticing but the guys need to let that go and understand we have a tough football team coming to town. Now we did lose. It was nice to go toe-to-toe with them, but that loss counts the same as any other loss on our schedule. We have got to move on. We have got to understand that there is a lot of season left and there's a lot of things that we want to accomplish this season.

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

If guys run hard, they aren't intimidated of a defense. You'd think a freshman would be scared. You can tell a guy who is scared. He'll tip-toe and try to make moves. I started noticing that.

You think she is pretty?' Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined this sort of thing. 'Yes, and you do too.' 'I hadn't noticed, really.' 'Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.

You notice. And noticing, you live.

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

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

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

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

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

To attract money, you must focus on wealth.

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

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.