I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
Children notice things first, people later.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.
You see, but you do not observe.
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.
I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
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 first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.
All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.
I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.
It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.
I am unobservant.
