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Quotes About Spotting

The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black person that is driving in a place that you stick out, that's all they're going to see.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
I have literally wanted a vintage business for as long as I can remember, but I am glad I waited. I've learned so much over the past ten years. So much about quality, shape and how to spot what truly is vintage and what isn't.
~ Dawn O'Porter
Some of the most revolutionary new ideas come from spotting something old to leave out rather than thinking of something new to put in.
~ Douglas Adams
I never shot much when I was a kid, but on the spotting scope, understanding the ballistics and the calculations, I'm a ten.
~ Brandon Webb
Lieutenant Commander William Sowden Sims brought about a complete revolution in United States naval gunnery, and from the outset was a powerful advocate of the all-big-gun battleship, with its advantage of uniform shell splash for long-range salvo spotting.
~ Richard Hough
Why is wrong spotting so easy? Because there's almost always something wrong—something the feedback giver is overlooking, shortchanging, or misunderstanding. About you, about the situation, about the constraints you're under. And givers compound the problem by delivering feedback that is vague, making it easy for us to overlook, shortchange, and misunderstand what they are saying. But in the end, wrong spotting not only defeats wrong feedback, it defeats learning.
~ Douglas Stone
Like any skill, systemising occurs on a bell curve in the population, with some people being faster at spotting patterns than others. Autistic people are often strong systemisers. Indeed their attention is often described as 'obsessive' as they check and recheck the patterns of a system.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a persons features.
~ Derren Victor Brown
The foundation is spotting my fastball, early in counts and especially if I fall behind.
~ Patrick Corbin
Early on, John and Laura must have spotted each other as kindred souls, especially when it came to religion.
~ Ron Chernow
Sister, spot me.
~ Joe Hill
Information is good, but to spot ideas, you want insights. Lots of them. Because ideas aren't spotted in forms. They're spotted in sights -- those revelatory insights seized only when you roam new turfs, meet new people and have new experiences.
~ Sam Harrison, IdeaSpotting
I am pro plaque. New York is lousy with them and I love how spotting them can jazz up even the most mundane errand.
~ Sarah Vowell
A person who just pretends to be good only preaches to stay away from negative guys , but one who is truly positive shows also to others the sign of spotting the toxic people.
~ Anuj Somany
time to see what Molly was doing. At first he didn't see her. Then he spotted the
~ Ellen Miles
So the difference between goalkeepers and outfielders is the little, tiny, minute details which are the difference and when they go against you, they are really glaring and they will be spotted.
~ Kasper Schmeichel
I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.
~ Jim Broadbent
I had to search a moment before spotting the soft glow advancing along the aisles between enemy divisions. It surrounded a child on a big white horse, bearing a standard of red emblazoned with a white rose.
~ Glen Cook
I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.
~ Ernest Cline
After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.
~ Vinod Khanna
mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager—by her high school boyfriend—she's
~ Brenda Novak
they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been
~ Brenda Novak
It was downright harrowing to be airborne while battleships offshore were bombarding targets ashore. Pilots flying gunnery spotting missions became sandwiched in an invisible corridor between salvos from the big ships offshore. While they spotted shell bursts and called in corrections, fourteen-hundred-pound battleship shells flew overhead in trios, plainly visible to the eye. Below, the smaller warheads of the cruisers whizzed past.
~ James D. Hornfischer
Celebrity-spotting is pretty standard at Davos. It's one of the things that makes it easy to criticise.
~ Taavet Hinrikus