“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.”

“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.”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Ronald David Laing (1927–1989) Scottish psychiatrist and author

“Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.”

Sakyong Mipham (1962) tibetan lama

“We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.”

Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR

“Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

“I notice me. I notice you too.
And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this.
Beat the time.
And every time I turn around
we got some clever way to put each other down.”

Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States

“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 (1942) American spiritual writer

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”

Dan Gutman (1954) American children's writer