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Quotes About Observation

Self-confidence seemed to me more mimicry than anything else and I suggested visiting Clifton Zoo to watch the leaders in a group of baboons, and learn from them: make your gestures slow and deliberate; cultivate a deeper voice; appear casual at all times; eschew all rapid movements. That was all you had to do to look confident.
~ John Cleese
but now I began to notice odd moments that suggested he was not the brightest lighthouse on the coastline. For instance, he once got very cross during assembly because he felt the boys had become lazy, and so he demanded that every single boy in the school should improve his ranking in class in the course of the next fortnight.
~ John Cleese
Young children have so little life experience that they inevitably assume that what happens around and to them is the norm.
~ John Cleese
It is unfortunate that they cannot witness the sight of a fresh cow femur sliced in half by a single stroke of a sharp replica sword.
~ Unknown
What is not perceived as such is not perceived at all.
~ John Coleman
Even now, I am anxious about the naked thoughts that I have shared. The observations are blisteringly honest and of course they have to be.
~ Unknown
It must have been after more than five minutes of this concentrated examination of the phenomenal shape which this strange growth on the horse's neck was gradually assuming, that the door-keeper suddenly leapt to his feet and began shouting: Bundy! Bundy! Bundy! come quick! Here's a horse that's going to have two heads! For God's sake come quick, Bundy, and look! It's going to have a man's head as well as its own! Quick! Quick! Bundy! come quick!
~ John Cowper Powys
His closing his eyes to me, opened my eyes to him.
~ Unknown
I couldn't help but noticing that I'm much better looking than all of your ex-girlfriends.
~ Unknown
Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
~ Unknown
Please dont act like you do. You dont care, I know you dont. Youve watched me destroy myself for too long now. If you really cared, you would have tried to stop it by now.
~ Unknown
Almost no one notices your pain, Almost no one notices your sadness, Almost no one notices your tears, But almost everyone notices your mistakes.
~ Unknown
A good girl is like a road, you gotta look both ways before you cross em.
~ Unknown
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
~ Samuel Johnson
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father
~ Unknown
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you want to identify someones character, examine the friends he sits with.
~ Unknown
You never realize how weird your friends are until you start to describe them to someone else.
~ Unknown
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
~ W Somerset Maugham
I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
~ Unknown
No need for revenge - Just sit back and wait, those that hurt you will eventually screw up all by themselves ...and if you are lucky, God will let you watch.
~ Unknown
Karma is gods way of showing that he see's everything and that there are consequences for everything that you do...Good and bad.
~ Unknown
Its amazing how you can fall in love with a person you didn't even notice the first time you met them.
~ Unknown
Our wishes are influenced by what we see, what we hear, how we feel and how we understand the meaning of life.
~ Unknown