Quotes About Observation

Tko nije nau?io gledati nebo u potoku, ne zna što su ribe na drve?u.

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

Om iets te zien moet je eerst iets kunnen herkennen. Zonder herinnering kun je alleen maar kijken. Dan glijd de wereld spoorloos door je heen.

Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.

People never notice anything.

The best way to appreciate the nature and objectives of an enemy is to observe him in action.

Every once in a while, you are on the set and you look at it from the outside and you are like, "This is ridiculous."

Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

But even though Naomi was at her lowest point, Ruth somehow saw a glimmer of hope in her mother-in-law—who had a relationship with the true God. (Remember: People are watching you when you are going through tough times, and even if you feel discouraged they can see how you trust Him.)

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. (ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST, 1871–1922)

You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The

One evening, the story goes, the two men were looking out of their laboratory window in Heidelberg at a fire raging in the nearby town of Mannheim. Curious about what might be burning, they pointed their spectroscope at the flames. They were able to detect the presence of the elements barium and strontium in the fire, whose spectra they had previously identified in their laboratory. The question struck them immediately: if they could analyse flames in Mannheim, why not the surface of the Sun?

So far as I could tell, I was alone here, at least in this section. I wasn't happy about the way the corridor went up a little ways and disappeared around a bend. I decided then and there if I ever try to be an architect, all my buildings would borrow from my old high school gymnasium—a big, empty space where you can't possible hide anything. May not be much in the way of privacy, but there are advantages all right.

So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.

Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity to go through the world ignoring people in front of you? All your friends were strangers before they became friends. I sneak glances at the darling strangers on the subway.

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

I've let it remain as it was to see what it is.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

I caught a glimpse of my shadow today. It's usually so hard to see because it always hides behind me. It's so much easier to see everyone else's.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

By learning to observe without becoming involved, the pattern of stimulus-response which underlies most human behaviour can be broken. Little by little the realisation dawns that one is free to choose how to react in all situations … The grip of long-standing habits is weakened and replaced with a new sense of freedom.

I saw a spaceship fly by your window. Did you see it disappear?