Norton Juster Quotes

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.

I like to look in the crevices of things, the nooks and the crannies. I like to see the things other people don't see, don't want to look at.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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

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

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

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

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me.

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

“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!

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.

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.

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.

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.'

I am unobservant.