Quotes from Harold Gatty

The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.

Out of little observations huge ideas may grow; and if a mind, made receptive by training in the use of the senses, can store away a mass of observations, the time will come when the whole collection can be unrolled, connected together as a great novel is planned, in a compelling pattern that tells us something new. Many

Everything becomes more meaningful to him who watches and listens without too much thought to the value of his time. One

Throughout the farming areas of Ohio, for instance, almost every little barn and building had an elaborate lightning conductor; there was an amazing number of these rods bristling on buildings throughout the state. Now, compared with any of the other neighboring states, Ohio is not more subject to lightning: it seemed to me that the enterprise of some persuasive salesman had left its mark. Of

It is the average (or, if you like, the consensus) of the local characteristics which enables him to sense the "grain" of the country, to plan his detours to find his way to his goal. First

Everything becomes more meaningful to him who watches and listens without too much thought to the value of his time.