Douglas Adams Quotes

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

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.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

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.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Sometimes you can listen to a song all your life without hearing it.

To my mind, most people go through life recoiling from its best parts. They miss the enrichment that just a basic knowledge of the physical world can bring to the most ordinary experiences.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

I just feel very grateful to be a part of that, to be a part of a winning team... I'm trying hard not to be used to it, but I am kind of. It is something where I've run out of people that I want to work with because I've worked with everybody I ever wanted to. I really have. I can't think of anyone I'd want to work with right now because I'd just want to work with the same people again.

People always get used to beauty though.