Quotes About Observation

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

Miraba a Bárbara. Ahora tan lejana. Hasta tal punto habíamos retrocedido que yo casi estaba esperando que alguien nos presentara.

Desde los doce años tengo la vista cansada, cansada de ver tanta estupidez alrededor

Americans, Douglass believed, instinctively and culturally watched history and preferred not to act in it.

Falderson, he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, is as stupid as the day is long. He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

but it's been my observation that justice is conspicuous by its absence when it comes to politics and entrenched, self-serving regimes.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

He had been privy to much, and blind to even more.

No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.

Something to note if you're a people watcher: the most revealing insights are on the fringes, not at the core. A zealot leader might be a study in zeal, but a broader spectrum of colours will flash from his followers.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

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

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

Do you see the invisible spirals on the margins of the page? I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out

Hay una gran recompensa para el ojo que observa y el oído que escucha.

Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.

On occasion we say to ourselves, panting, 'Gosh, life is racing by.' But that's not it at all, it's the contrary: life is still. It is we who are racing by.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.

The rich eyelashes again made him think that her eyes were half open.

Two middle-aged American couples came back from the dining car and, as soon as they could see Mt. Fuji, past Numazu, stood at the windows eagerly taking photographs. By the time Fuji was completely visible, down to the fields at its base, they seemed tired of photographing and had turned their backs to it. The

I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there.