Quotes About Observation

Ever notice how amused people are when you point out one of their mannerisms or a funny quirk about them? They start laughing and getting happy because they're thinking, "People notice me! I'm relevent!" It's OK to have these instincts, but you have to suppress them a bit. There are 6 billion people here, so it's not all about you. You need to let other people talk for a while and pay attention to their world for a sec.

Always explore a new town on an empty stomach. It sharpens the vision. Leave the main thoroughfare immediately. Spend your time dawdling or just sitting.

The wise man waits and his enemies tear each other to pieces

A watched pot never boils. But it does get paranoid.

He sat without moving while coffee and balloon glasses were set before them.

Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya . She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes.

It's funny to be a critic.

What is the separation between information and the unfolding of phenomena?

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

Writing can't be a way of life -- the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

The modern antithesis of observation and reason on the one hand versus revelation and faith on the other is only tenable on the basis of a prior decision that the whole cosmic and human story has no purpose and therefore no meaning. It

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound.

Here's what we know about Santa. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I think he's with the NSA.

Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy of it. Treat the subject coldly. Imagine yourself to be a theologist, but a special kind of theologist, one who studies gods the way an entomologist studies insects. Take as your dataset the entirety of world mythology and treat it as a collection of field observations and statistics pertaining to a hypothetical species: the god. Proceed from there.

Quentin's scales, he couldn't help but notice in passing, were the shiny metallic blue of a bitchin' muscle car.

It made Janet want to puke just watching her. And she wasn't even pregnant.

Time was defined by change, and very little changed for a blue whale. He noticed everything but was concerned with nothing.

If, instead of our claiming to be a changeful personality, we could regain our true centre, that immutable, conscious self which observes the personality, we should at once and for ever be happy and peaceful, because we would then know for certain that what affected the body could not affect our self.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.