Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

You see, but you do not observe.

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.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The more you look, the more you see.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

I am unobservant.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

If you pay attention to everything and everyone, you can keep your finger on the pulse and know what's going on. Then you can pull back when you need to or go forward in a certain way.