Mark Lawrence Quotes

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

I am unobservant.

The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in some instances, you gotta watch your front, too.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

People never notice anything.

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

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

We continue to be vigilant.

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.'

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.