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Quotes About Observation

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Nevertheless, although they were thinner then the thinnest vapour, yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.
~ Margaret Cavendish
?akal bom ladje, sedel bom v katerem izmed bifejev ob pristaniš?u, na z apnom pobeljenem dvoriš?u, z uzom in mezeji in piškoti iz medu in mandljev z medom in mandlji pred sabo ... vdihaval bom te sladke vonjave. In ?akal. Sedel bom na modrem stolu in ?akal. Gledal bom menjavanje letnih ?asov na nebu z odprto knjigo na srcu. Ob morju se nebo hitro spreminja. Življenje se zgosti pred temi široko odprtimi vrati.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Puedes fotografiar simplemente la realidad o puedes buscar -¿el qué? -Algo que pasa pero no se ve, aparece luego.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
~ Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
~ Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
~ Margaret Mead
A cat may look at a king, but he might also lose a bit of fur for it.
~ Unknown
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
~ Margaret Millar
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
~ Margaret Mitchell
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
~ Unknown
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.
~ Unknown
A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
It's true that misery loves company. If you ever doubt that, look at a No-Pest Strip. It's covered with flies. You'd think that the first fly would tell any others "Go around! Go around!"
~ Margaret Smith
Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!
~ Margaret Way
Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.
~ Margaret Weis
looked out of her window at the road below and the glimpse of the Strand beyond. Buses and cars tore noisily by, and people jostled on the pavements. Life was down there, bustling and real: love, death, birth, misery and vice; and some joy, she supposed.
~ Unknown
Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto.
~ Marge Piercy
I am still that child. I eavesdrop on the conversations of strangers in restaurants, in airports and supermarkets. I drive my husband crazy with questions sometimes; but I am still a good listener and I still keep secrets.
~ Marge Piercy
Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
~ Marge Piercy
We chatted for some moments, and Janet joined us, and it was not until some minutes later that I became aware of someone hating me. It is one of those odd but unmistakable sensations one experiences Sometimes on buses or at private dinners, and I looked across the table to observe a young cleric whom I had never seen before regarding me with honest hostility.
~ Margery Allingham
there. Clean up a bit while you keep an eye on him, Pollit, will you? We'll be just across the landing.' He led the way to Campion's room.
~ Margery Allingham
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
~ Margery Allingham
Take a breath. Observe. Proceed. If you still feel fear about proceeding, choose to say, "Fuck it." "Fuck it" is a declaration of freedom. It announces to the world that nothing can hold you back, not even your fear. Although fear can be crippling at times, it can also be a powerful catalyst for positive change. We are all fearful. There is nothing wrong with it. Recast your fear. It can become a motivating factor. Use it to launch into a higher orbit of creativity.
~ Unknown