Quotes About Observation

Tacitus, "qui abrégeoit tout parce qu'il voyoit tout." ("He abridged everything because he saw everything." Perfect.)

In the Italian galleries even the guides regularly fingered the paint surface.

Well, I'm a standing on a corner In Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see, It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to have a look at me.

She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire, whether they are fifteen or thirty.

A qui vit aux champs et se sert de ses yeux, tout devient miraculeux et simple. To those who dwell in the fields and use their eyes, everything becomes miraculous and simple

I shall have everything ... and I shall lean over the edge of a white terrace smothered with the roses of my gardens and shall see the lords of the earth, the wanderers, pass by!'" - Colette, La Vagabonde

Anna O. had a third state as well, which today would be called a hidden observer, internal self helper, or center. This was an entity described as follows: "A clear-sighted and calm observer up sat, as she put it, in a corner of her brain and looked on at all the mad business" [p. 101].

Their eyes seemed to see another life—a life that was losing clarity and focus. And those beasts that had been there the longest could see only wire mesh and concrete. All memories of the past had drained from them. They sat on their logs and their rocks, their heads slowly scrolling left and right like dementia patients, mesmerized by the passing visitors but not at all interested in

I FIND THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE FAIL TO SEE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES.

Man kann den Wald nicht vor Baümen sehen.

the coolness of the wall mirror. He

There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

The sun is the width of a human foot.

If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!

Een wijf met een sigaar is als een onderzeeër met een balkon.

Ik kijk door de halfgeopende jaloezieën. Ik zie een schim rond het huis van de buren waren. De schim van de man die ik tevoren al eens gezien heb in de tuin van de buren. (...) Ik open m'n raam en ik roep, niet al te luid: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De schim verstijft. Ik blijf roepen: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De man is weggevlucht uit de tuin.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

Time-out periods—sometimes as short as Jane's ten-hour drive, other times as long as Brenda's multiyear moratorium—help people make changes by providing a space for reflective observation.18 Stepping back makes room for insights we have been incubating but cannot yet articulate. It helps us see the coexistence—and incompatibility—of old and new.

The faceless silhouettes seemed to look at each other, as if wishing they could resolve the situation between themselves, without having to trouble their owners.

about these matters. One read that people abroad did frequently get emotional and kill each other. Probably the heat. Miss Seeton stepped aside to avoid a pile of crates. She peered at them. Seville oranges. How interesting. Spain. Such

Ich wusste nicht, wie das Licht verschwindet, obwohl ich eine ganze Stunde hinsah. Er sagte, es gäbe Sachen, die eben nicht in die Augen gehen.