Noticer Quotes & Sayings

Everyone here has a different gripe, large or small. The bad fish, for instance, which I'm told is caught in polluted rivers and can be deadly. The biggest complaint, though, is the lack of queuing. "It's not first-come, first-served, it's most-obnoxious, first-served," says Abby. The lack of trust is another popular gripe. "Friends don't even trust friends. If bad things happen to their friends, people think, 'Good, maybe it won't happen to me,' " says one volunteer. Corruption is another theme. Paying professors for passing grades is widespread, so much so that Moldovans won't go to doctors under thirty-five years old. They suspect - with good reason - that they bought their degrees. Thus, the radius of mistrust is widened. — Eric Weiner

don't trust women, for they are easy to catch, but treacherous to possess. — Robert Evert

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives. — Larry Dossey

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer. — Garth Risk Hallberg

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction. — Patton Oswalt

I've been very fortunate in my career. — Ashley Johnson

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker. — Leo Kottke

Time they say is the best healer. Sad, but not true. With time, pain becomes you and you become pain. One forgets what life was without the pain. — Jayant Swamy

Whatever you focus upon, increases. — Andy Andrews

Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens> — Andy Andrews

I had my issues with the Kardashians, absolutely. I think there's so much wrong with how they are the most revered family in the country, but they are, nevertheless. — Lisa Ling

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? — Giorgos Seferis

I think a lot of what is involved in finding a noticer is to watch people and see what fruit people have on the tree. You examine that life and see if it has the kind of fruit you want to produce in your life. — Andy Andrews

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won't. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time. — Lilian Katz