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Quotes About Observation

He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe.
~ John Boyne
La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia
~ John Boyne
Wenn ein Mensch nachts in den Himmel schaut, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er Astronom ist - Pavel
~ John Boyne
Mrs Hogan and her son Henry, however, lived in the house next door – the former entirely mute, the latter completely blind – and yet between them they monitored our comings and goings with all the efficiency of a government intelligence agency. Like conjoined twins, the two were never seen apart, Henry's arm permanently attached to his mother's as she led him to and from Mass every morning and up and down the street for his evening constitutional.
~ John Boyne
You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.
~ Unknown
You will never hear a bird cry or a sheep bleat or a weasel scream.
~ John Buchan
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~ John Bunyan
She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?
~ Unknown
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others' successes.
~ John C. Maxwell
It has been said that you don't really know people until you have observed them when they interact with a child, when the car has a flat tire, when the boss is away, and when they think no one will ever know. But people with integrity never have to worry about that. No matter where they are, who they are with, or what kind of situation they find themselves in, they are consistent and live by their principles.
~ John C. Maxwell
People can be in the same place sharing the same experience at the same time, but they can walk away from it having seen very different things.
~ John C. Maxwell
How to prepare someone for leadership: I do it. I do it and you watch. You do it and I watch. You do it. You do it and someone else watches.
~ John C. Maxwell
Andrew Carnegie said, "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." Great
~ John C. Maxwell
People's minds are changed through observation and not argument." People
~ John C. Maxwell
Nicolás Maquiavelo dijo: "El primer método para calcular la inteligencia de un gobernante es observar a los hombres que lo rodean".
~ John C. Maxwell
Se dice que un individuo sabio aprende de sus errores, uno más sabio aprende de los errores de los demás, pero el más sabio aprende del éxito de los demás. Hoy
~ John C. Maxwell
How does one "catch' leadership? By watching good leaders in action!
~ John C. Maxwell
walking slowly through the crowd.
~ John C. Maxwell
La primera regla para estimar la inteligencia de un gobernante es observar a los hombres que tiene alrededor suyo
~ John C. Maxwell
His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape.
~ John Cheever
And walking back from the river I remember the galling loneliness of my adolescence, from which I do not seem to have completely escaped. It is the sense of the voyeur, the lonely, lonely boy with no role in life but to peer in at the lighted windows of other people's contentment and vitality. It seems comical -- farcical -- that, having been treated so generously, I should be struck with this image of a kid in the rain walking along the road shoulders of East Milton.
~ John Cheever
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~ John Cheever
And he recognized that he was separated only by a pane of glass from a life that was as strange to him as life on the moon.
~ John Cheever
Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E," Irene said. "I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isn't this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C.
~ John Cheever