Quotes About Observation

You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life." Isana

Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.

the blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person." I put my hand over my heart, grinning at him. "Ow.

I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.

I'm not stupid. I've got eyes. I see some things everyone else tries to pretend aren't there. This vampire craze sweeping the nation. Why the hell shouldn't there be some genuine vampires in it?

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

Three blind men were shown an elephant. They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was. The first man felt the trunk, and claimed that an elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed that an elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope." I

The mailman walked towards my office door, half an hour earlier than usual. He didn't sound right. His footsteps fell more heavily, jauntily, and he whistled. A new guy. He whistled his way to my office door and then fell silent for a moment. Then he laughed.

I glanced at Mac as though to appeal for help. Mac ignored me. Mac doesn't take sides. Mac is wise.

I had seen the Titan's weakness: She had the vices of her virtues.

It looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, odds are it's a damn duck.

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner.

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

and scanned the darkness, but saw nothing. "Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated," I said.

Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.

Your advice is good. For a young man, you have good judgment." "You haven't seen my car.

Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.

I hadn't noticed the green of summer enough and now the colors were gray and white and black.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

The feathers on your chin mean that you ate the parakeet.

By not letting places be themselves we show our contempt for them. We bury them in sentiment, then suffocate them to death in one way or another. I can ruin both the desert and the Museum of Modern Art in New York by carrying to them an insufferable load of distinctions that disallows actually seeing the flora and fauna or the paintings. Children are usually better at finding mushrooms and arrowheads because they are either ignorant of or unwilling to carry the load.

With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward," said

He leant back to stare heavenwards, gently fingering the swollen skin around his black eye. But the river stank. Reduced by the heat like a good soup, it was sixty per cent ducks' piss with a hint of incontinent rat.