Quotes About Observation

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

Ao invés de pensar em nós mesmos apenas como observadores, trilhando nosso caminho ao redor dos objetos espalhados pelo chão de um mundo já formado, devemos imaginar-nos, em primeiro lugar, como participantes, cada um imerso com todo nosso ser nas correntes de um mundo em formação: na luz solar nós vemos, a chuva na qual ouvimos e o vento no qual sentimos.

Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.

Hot and overcast. I take my gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafés. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.

Meyrueis, Lozère, June 26, 1977. Hot and overcast. I take my gear out of the car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafés. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.

The cute brunette—and damn, was she cute!— turned her back on the covered painting as she changed, which gave him a perfect view. Sweet, pert breasts, as yet defiant of gravity and not weighed down with the responsibility of childbirth. Strong limbs, long legs, a flat stomach rippled with the subtle evidence of running and other exercise. And she shaved. Most college kids her age did, he'd come to learn. That didn't do it for Sitterson

They were stuck in a traffic queue. There was nowhere they could go. They couldn't help but see the melting man.

The names expose the namer more than they limn what's caught the eye.

How unsettling is it, she wonders, to fool around with ferrets watching you? Their beady button eyes.

One takes great pleasure in seeing children acquire skills one does not have, seeing them become, thankfully, different from oneself.

Your ticket says via Pordenone," he told me. "Don't you read your documento di viaggio?" I was fascinated. What kind of man is it who imagines that when one buys a train ticket one then stops to read it?

I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you

Confidence lets you hear the voices around you and in your own head, without responding or reacting. You can hear them without listening to a single word.

RC blinked a couple more times and admired the freckles on either side of [Honey's] nose. He would have enjoyed connecting them dot-to-dot with a felt-tip pen. In his fantasy, he would discover the meaning of life spread across her cheekbones.

3D – Arkady had seen it mainly in profile

You know how when you see someone day in, day out, year after year, you don't really notice him getting taller or wider or older or whatever? It can be like that with the way people are on the inside too.

He took a battered pack of cigarettes out of his back pocket and held it out to Devona. "Want one?" Devona shook her head. "No thanks." I noticed the brand: Coffin Nails.

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

Keep your ears open. You know what the first word of the holy rule of Saint Benedict is? Listen.

No one was ever charged with a lawless execution witnessed by thousands of Hoosiers in the public square.

Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.

I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.