Markus Zusak Quotes

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

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

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

The more you look, the more you see.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

The more you look, the more you will see.

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

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

You see, but you do not observe.

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

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

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.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

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.