Quotes About Observation

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

Theory can blind observation.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.