Notice Quotes

Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

It's easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Shy people notice everything, but they don't get noticed

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it.

If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.

We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truththat God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle.

I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be for ever on the go. And so people are always on the go.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject;

the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of effort required to accomplish something! A mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a scarecrow to children and fools and a stimulus to real men.

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began.

You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day.

A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Death affords those who are left an opportunity to reevaluate everything.

And though we would give all we have to defer that opportunity, it exists anyway. It allows us to see the flimsiness of our expectations, to realize there is not expectation without disappointment; it allows us the possibility to being more sensitive, more vulnerable, to let others support us, and to notice the integrity and love often left unobserved in life's fast pace. Mainly, it gives us the chance to live life in the present.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.