Quotes About Observation

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."—George S. Patton

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."—Henry David Thoreau

Alison Gopnik's Scientist in the Crib

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes." —MARCEL PROUST

Take time to stop and smell the roses, or—in this case—to count the pea pods.

El genio es solamente la facultad superior de ver.» JOHN RUSKIN, afamado artista y crítico social

Los niños no hacen lo que les dices que hagan. Hacen lo que ven. Tu forma de vivir la vida les sirve a ellos de ejemplo.»

being able to view things as they are as opposed to what everybody says about them,

He said the HP mantra was "MBWA." Translation: Managing By Wandering Around. It stands for being in touch, being human—and learning from everyone.

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

Me gusta analizar lo que Seth no hace tanto como lo que sí hace. Seth no tiene comentarios en su blog, no presta atención a las analíticas y no usa Twitter ni Facebook

Underrated comedians to pay attention to Sebastian Maniscalco (totally

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

We know so little of the universe, yet the universe knows all about us and all humans that have lived on Earth. It has seen the birth of life and the evolution of Man. It has witnessed our history and will probably view our demise, like a hidden camera that has filmed our lives.

Does the guy move around much? If he's more mobile than, say, the average couch, Cho will probably lose him.

Eastern styles of meditation do not require that you create mental stillness by blocking out your thoughts. Instead, they suggest that you observe your thought processes in a detached way.

Jesus is pointing to an internal reality of grace that expresses itself in observable changes in individuals and their relationships.

having a passport is not a sign of surrender. On the contrary, it is liberating, since it creates the possibility of new experiences. It allows us to see how other people, sometimes wiser than we, react to similar problems. Since so much of what has happened in the last year is familiar to the rest of the world or from recent history, we must observe and listen.

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

Le stazioni sono vere, sono specchi delle città nel cui cuore sono piantate. Le stazioni stanno vicine alle cattedrali, alle moschee, alle pagode o ai mausoleo. Una volta arrivati lì, si è arrivati davvero.

E' un aspetto, questo, dello stano mestiere del cronista che non cessa di affascinarmi e, al tempo stesso, di inquietarmi: i fatti non registrati non esistono.

he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolf from a man if he keeps his chin up and his teeth clean.

Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.

You'd be surprised what a guy can learn by staying quiet