Quotes About Observation

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

Those who wish to learn magic ought to begin by looking around them.

I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

When people praise us, we should always keep a close eye on how we behave

The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

Train your eyes: they were made to see more than you think.

They thought, for example, that I really ought to know the name Intel because "it's written on every computer." I, of course, had never noticed.

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.

Now, as they were all looking at the new moth, she, too, went to look at it. It was of a creamy yellow color, like the yellow of the lemon called Buddha's Hand, and it had long black antennae. These quivered as it felt itself impaled. The wide wings fluttered and dark spots upon them showed green and gold for a moment. Then the moth was still. How quickly they die! Ch'iuming said suddenly.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

From the stars," she thought, "doubtless all things are seen.

and looked sharply across the street. There was only one house

she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.

I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides hope enough for the world.

Y el niño tiene que conformarse con mirar de lejos esos colores verde menta, morado mora, rosa frutilla o amarillo bocado que ofrecen las heladerías. Muy adentro, en su enano corazón, él ya sabe que pertenece a esa muchedumbre conformista que mira las vitrinas tocándose las monedas para el Metro.

It's an extraordinary thing—every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?

Refraining is very powerful because it gives us an opportunity to acknowledge when we're caught and then to get unstuck.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.