Quotes About Noticing Small Things

#1. When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.

Neel Burton

#2. There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof. - Ellie O'Neill

Jennifer E. Smith

#3. The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

Robert Baden-Powell

#4. And you never struck me as the suicidal type, smartass.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. Dawn appears when it appears.

Jared Brock

#6. For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

Karl Mannheim

#7. The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

Amanda Hocking

#8. Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

David Brooks

#9. But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.

Anthony Doerr

#11. When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

Peter McWilliams

#12. Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

Mason Cooley

#13. Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Spencer Johnson

#14. I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

George W. Bush

#15. In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Antoni Gaudi

#16. Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.

Kcat Yarza

#17. Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Terence McKenna

#18. Then I heard someone laugh.
I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

Elizabeth Scott

#19. Without noticing, I slip into a light yet lingering malaise. Not a depression, more like a fascination for melancholia, which I turn in my hand as if it were a small planet, streaked in shadow, impossibly blue.

Patti Smith