Quotes About Observation

Una evidencia es que vivía entre hombres impíos "viendo y oyendo los hechos inicuos de ellos" y la maldad a su alrededor (2 P. 2:8) y, aun así, él mismo no era impío.

Una segunda evidencia es que "veía a los prevaricadores" y se contrariaba por lo que veía a su alrededor

In rural England, people live wrapped tight in a cocoon; only their eyes move to make sure nobody gets more than themselves. Popular education has not touched them; they communicate as their fathers did by a flick of the eyeballs, passing down grudges either improve upon or, at very least, in mint condition, from generation to generation.

You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

Knowledge by acquaintance is sometimes called "simple seeing," being directly aware of something.

Though on dry land Joey D seemed as if he were on the verge of a nervous breakdown, at sea he was an expert relaxer. On cue he could release all the tension in his muscles and bob along like a jellyfish—a 260-pound Irish jellyfish. I watched his face as he floated, a mask of pure serenity I'd never witnessed on any man. Then his face became still more serene, and I realized that he must be peeing.

The notion that emotions are simply the result of our higher cognitive appreciation of certain forms of bodily commotion has been largely negated by the observation of essentially normal emotional responsivity in people who have suffered massive spinal cord injuries.

I was going to stop being so cynical but probably nobody would even notice.

Lazy people should observe a colony of ants and learn from their diligence. Prov. 6.7 No one is there to organize them or tell them what to do. They have no commander or ruler giving them daily orders.

Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful. Jeffrey Michael Thomas

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Carl was engrossed in the latest Brad Thor thriller and would glance up from time to time to observe the screens. Scott hit pause on his iPhone long enough to say hello. He was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast where the podcaster was somehow discussing psychedelic drugs and bow hunting with Cam Hanes in the same episode.

Good. What do you need to pull it off?" "Take a breath, look around, make a call," Reece muttered.

In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank with their heads watching the horizon, spears in hand. Though they were few, they were the men he needed. You've always been one of the few, James. Keep watching the horizon.

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Situational awareness, Reece.

I made a mental note to buy stock in the Iraqi padlock company.

If I try to teach you what I do, you will fail because you are not me. If you hang around me, you will observe what I do, and you may pick up some good habits. But there are a lot of things you will want to do differently. Colm O'Shea

Unlike some other gurus, he doesn't believe he is predicting the future; he is simply observing what is happening and making rational bets.

As did every expedition leader, Álvarez de Pineda surely kept a log. In it would have been the only first-person observations of native cultures of the upper Gulf at the time of contact. According to secondhand accounts, he came across as many as forty native groups, which would have exhibited the fullness of aboriginal life, thousands of years old, before the sweeping carnage of European pathogens, biological imports transported on every ship crossing the Atlantic

He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.

She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have to say. But after I'd talked to her a few times, and had a Coke date once, when I ran into her downtown-then she was pretty.