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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. -- Bertolt Brecht
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. -- H. L. Mencken
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do. -- Lois Wyse
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too. -- Peter Kreeft
Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come -- Spencer Johnson
When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start! -- Oprah Winfrey
Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence. -- Nathaniel Branden
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. -- Byron Katie
Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations. -- Myles Munroe
I've been noticing gravity since I was very young. -- Cameron Diaz
It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. -- Michael Jordan
I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!' -- Gabby Douglas
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. -- Diane Mott Davidson
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. -- Anne Lamott
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. -- John Green
When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives. -- Paulo Coelho
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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
This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. -- Daniel Kahneman
All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible. -- Leo Strauss
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. -- Teresa Heinz
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
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. -- Slavoj Zizek
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful. -- Naomie Harris
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. -- Elliott Erwitt
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. -- Paul Watzlawick
There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted. -- Josie Maran
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
To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough. -- Rhonda Byrne
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. -- Margaret Heffernan
Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!" -- Eddie Izzard
As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle. -- Beth Ditto
Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing. -- Rob Manuel
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
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. -- Jim Parrack
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I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year. -- Anna Kendrick
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. -- Dean Ornish
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare. -- Michelle Dockery
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent. -- Jerry Saltz
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me. -- Laura Marling
I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. ... I would hold a door for anyone. ... It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face. -- Tim Gunn
The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy. -- Maria Montessori
Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember. -- George A. Sheehan
You don't know, but I'm noticing. -- David Levithan
You notice. And noticing, you live. -- John Graves
Political correctness is a war on noticing. -- Steve Sailer
Photography is simply a function of noticing things. -- Elliott Erwitt
Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming. -- Gregory Maguire
Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. -- Sara Gruen
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. -- Norton Juster
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing. -- Jean-Pierre Melville
Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others. -- Rick Warren
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. -- Tana French
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels. -- Bertolt Brecht
The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. -- John Green
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... -- John Green
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. -- Boris Pasternak
We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike. -- Dean Frazer
Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good. -- Trey Songz
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to. -- John Green
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. -- Elliott Erwitt
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. -- Carl Sagan
It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to. -- Edie Falco
It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there. -- John Sexton
I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it. -- John Green
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist. -- Rachel Held Evans
One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible. -- Thylias Moss
Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence. -- Agatha Christie
I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now. -- LeBron James
Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel. -- Danica McKellar
Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird. -- Shane West
Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird -- Shane West
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. -- Ira Glass
I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life. -- Barbara Ann Kipfer
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing. -- Carlo Scarpa
So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing. -- Matthew Vaughn
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing. -- Nora Roberts
As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. -- Mary McCarthy
If you are noticing what you appreciate and noticing what you are grateful for, you can't be noticing what you don't like. -- Michael Losier
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. -- James M. Barrie
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. -- Baltasar Gracian
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. -- H. L. Mencken
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. -- Eric Hoffer
We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer. -- Jodi Picoult
If you go through an entire day without noticing something positive, it says a lot more about you than it does your day. -- Ray Clements(J.B.)
Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing. -- Cassandra Clare
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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
I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will. -- Annie Dillard
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. -- Ted Allen
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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
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. -- Matthew Scully
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
What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want. -- Alfie Allen
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. -- Cheryl Hayashi
I started noticing a lot of big companies are bored with ads; they feel sort of lost in the advertising world. They're not into magazines anymore. -- Gavin McInnes
The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them. -- Allison Pearson
After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery. -- Max Blumenthal
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
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form? -- Jeremy Narby
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that. -- Carla Gugino
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers -- Bjarne Stroustrup
For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke. -- Jarod Kintz
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating. -- Terence McKenna
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. -- Douglas Hurd
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it. -- Dumitru Tepeneag
You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment. -- Steve Albini
We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind. -- Dale Jamieson
I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style. -- Yohji Yamamoto

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