Quotes About Observation

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, "Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway." So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

The stakeout. The least glamorous and yet often the most valuable activity in investigations. To endure the agonizing boredom and forestall restlessness, I slowed my metabolism into near rigor mortis until I was nothing more than a pair of eyeballs fixed

El hemisferio izquierdo tiene autoconsciencia; esto es, puede tomar la suficiente distancia como para observarse a sí mismo. El hemisferio derecho no tiene autoconsciencia, no puede observarse a sí mismo y, por consiguiente, necesita al izquierdo para observarse. Esta auto-observación posee un gran poder transformador.

Tengo la sensación de que vivimos en una Sociedad que observa las cosas de una manera muy superficial. Nuestra mirada revolotea de aquí para allá y normalmente sólo se para ante lo que nos parece sorprendente. Hoy falta alcance para ver más allá de lo aparente, falta profundidad para reflexionar sobre las realidades más importantes de la vida y, falta amplitud para descubrir la manera en la que todo está interconectado ", pag. 23.

I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.

No me atrevo a juzgarte. Se que cuando uno ve las cosas desde fuera, cuando uno no se siente complicado en ellas, es muy fácil proclamar que es lo malo y que es lo bueno. Pero cuando uno esta metido hasta el pescuezo en el problema (y yo he estado muchas veces así), las cosas cambian, la intensidad es otra, aparecen hondas convicciones, inevitables sacrificios y renunciamientos que pueden parecer inexplicables para el que solo observa.

Para mirar los diarios, hay que bajar los ojos.

Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada, y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz. Miro

Lo único que no engaña (así, como rasgo aislado) es la mirada.

Mi madre... poseía una sensibilidad en constante alerta, que tanto mi padre como ella misma tenían por su falla más visible.

Es un odioso oficio el de testigo y yo ni siquiera puedo evitar serlo de mí mismo.

Escribe llubia porque en su campito nunca vio que lloviera con ve corta.

Twentieth-century British mathematician G.H. Hardy also believed that the human function is to "discover or observe" mathematics rather than to invent it. In other words, the abstract landscape of mathematics was there, waiting for mathematical explorers to reveal it.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

As Will stood watching Pen, just before he turned away, his initial astonishment shifted into something quieter. Soon, she will see me; we'll sit someplace and talk, he thought. He felt like a kid who falls asleep on a long car trip, wakes up, and looks out the window to find that he's in a new place, or home, and that it's morning.

She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.

Walker studied the small, twitching motions of his

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

It often struck Nina that women who seemed capable of only limited mental tasks in most situations could retain information regarding other peoples weight for years, sometimes decades. Unlike genuine idiots savants, they couldn't tell you that December 13, 1972 had fallen on a Wednesday. But they could often tell you, within a pound or two, how much you'd weighed that week.

Thor was watching them. 'Gretchen says what we both think,' Thor said quietly.

The moon rose in the east and that was moon-rise. Six hours later it hung at its zenith between east and west, and that was south-moon-over. It set in the west and that was moon-down. Then it passed from sight and swung under the earth, between west and east. And when it was directly under the earth, that was south-moon-under.