Quotes About Observation

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.

The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you.

Children are great observers.

Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence.

Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

Art is not about achievement, but rather a new perspective to look from.

Every eye makes its own perception.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

Children observe everything with caution.

Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us?

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.