Quotes About Observation

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.

Children always know when company is in the living room - they can hear their mother laughing at their father's jokes

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

Reality is only seen when the mirror is clean

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from someone else's.

Everything happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

The way they leave tells you everything.

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.

ever there is doubt as to the advisability of advancing a human identity to the mansion worlds, the universe governments invariably rule in the personal interests of that individual; they unhesitatingly advance such a soul to the status of a transitional being, while they continue their observations of the emerging morontia intent and spiritual purpose. Thus divine justice is certain of achievement, and divine mercy is accorded further opportunity for extending its ministry.

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.

Schönheit haftet nicht den Dingen an, sondern liegt im Helldunkel, im Schattenspiel, das sich zwischen den Dingen entfaltet, sagt der Dichter Tanizaki Junichiro. Und ich denke, es ist tatsächlich so, dass die Dinge sich für uns jeweils anders abschatten. Erst in unserem Blick, der immer auch aus einer bestimmten Perspektive, einer Geneigtheit kommt, werden sie schön.

Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never stop looking. That is how I am looking because my mouth is not working enough for me to speak and even my leg are hardly working for me to move.

He watches Meredith toss her long brown hair over her shoulder so that we can see the single diamond stud suspended just beneath her collarbones on a thin gold chain. She rolls it between her fingers and it makes her look delicate and pretty. Rowan thinks she does it to look pretty because he thinks all women do all things to look either pretty or fuckable. He has always though Meredith pretty. Now he thinks her fuckable.

He watches Meredith toss her long brown hair over her shoulder so that we can see the single diamond stud suspended just beneath her collarbones on a thin gold chain. She rolls it between her fingers and it makes her look delicate and pretty. Rowan thinks she does it to look pretty because he thinks all women do all things to look either pretty or fuckable. He has always thought Meredith pretty. Now he thinks her fuckable.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say "Sum!" because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history.

It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full of books telling you how to do it. The only textbooks for private eyes are on fiction shelves, and I don't remember ever reading one that told me how to interrogate an eight-year old without feeling like I was auditioning for the Gestapo.

You're afraid of people's judgment…What do you care! People are like dogs; whenever anyone makes a wrong move they set up a holler. They bark and then they stop--and wait for someone else to go wrong.

But how can you keep watch on a woman? A woman can fool herself, not to mention others.