Quotes About Observation

where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).

Running records capture what young readers say and do while reading continuous text, usually short stories or books. Having taken the record teachers can review what happened immediately, leading to teaching decisions on the spot, or at a later time as they plan for next lessons.

Listen to the silence of the earth while the lark sings! Have you ever observed the receptive attitude in which Nature seems to wait for sounds divine!

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Nothing more resembles a tomcat on a windowsill than a female cat.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

If you observe a content which then disappears for a short time into the unconscious, it is not altered when it comes up again, but if you forget something for a long time, it does not return in the same form; it autonomously evolves or regresses in the other sphere, and therefore one can speak of unconscious as being a sphere, or entity in itself.

C — Curiosity. What's happening here? What are the facts?

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch!

Someone said to me, "How's your rabbit food?" I said, "Fine." ... "How's your vulture food?"

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?