Terry Pratchett Quotes

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

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.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.