“We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.”

— James P. Hogan

Source: Paths to Otherwhere (1996), Ch. 28

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British writer 1941–2010

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“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.”

Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt

Source: The Salmon of Doubt

“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

"Beat The Time"
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

"Knowing What's Nice", an essay from In These Times (2003)
Various interviews

“That's what happens when you love someone… you notice and notice and notice.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

“You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: Suite Scarlett

“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

As quoted in The 100 Greatest Heroes (2003) p. 60 by Harry Paul Jeffers
2000s

“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 (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism

Attributed to Strauss at many sites on the internet, this is actually Norman Maclean, in A River Runs Through It (1976)
Misattributed

“What? You don't think he's cute?"
"I didn't really notice."
"How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.”

David Byrne (1952) Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music

From his film True Stories

“We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.”

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