You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas-better to write down what refutes and weakens them! Elias Canetti
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. Randal Marlin
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say. T. S. Eliot
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights. Margaret Heffernan
If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success. Steven Pinker