Quotes About Observation

Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.

He arrives carrying a forest, and you said he walks his cat on a leash, and he's the one assessing other people's mental health?

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.

You've never seen surprise until you've looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.

Ladybugs all dressed in red Strolling through the flowerbed. If I were tiny just like you I'd creep among the flowers too!

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

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.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

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.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity, and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The

From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.

Maria Montessori

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.

Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

Couldn't inquisitiveness be called just real affection with a kind of squint in its eye?

I don't like the eyes. You get so tired, don't you? Of being looked at. Maybe some women feel flattered, but I've always felt the moment a man's eyes settle on me, he's halfway to feeling he can do anything.

I couldn't be with people and I didn't want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I'd lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Most people have a perceptual tripwire which registers the trespass of another's focused interest.