Quotes About Observation

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

Never miss a chance to shut up

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that—every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. —DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE

Sit quietly for a few minutes and become mindful of your breath as it goes in and out. Then contemplate what you do when you're unhappy or dissatisfied and want to feel better. Even make a list if you want to. Then ask yourself: Does it work? Has it ever worked? Does it soothe the pain? Does it escalate the pain? If you're really honest, you'll come up with some pretty interesting observations.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things.

I'm afraid I'm not accustomed to the poor light, Mrs James.' 'Look at the sky, father. Keep your eyes on the lightest part of the sky and they'll adapt little by little.

When in a foreign country, he thought, you are behind a fence, or in a cell - everything is going on around you but you are not quite part of it. You open your mouth, and you sound like a child; you know that you are someone else, but you cannot explain it.

Don't you ever realise, said Helen, that the way we live is unlike the way other people live? On the whole I should have thought that was cause for satisfaction.