Quotes About Observation

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Ahad Ha'am, for example, visited Palestine and observed that 'it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed'. He warned prophetically: 'If a time comes when our people in Palestine develop so that, in small or great measure, they push out the native inhabitants, these will not give up their place easily.

Once you are able to observe each phase, along with each strategy for each phase being played out, you only have to wait for the profit release phase and then join it.

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

Photographers, like painters, seldom retire.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

No matter how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story. As

If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.

The houses and communities in North Carolina were more upmarket, carefully choreographed versions of the ones I had seen across the Russian Far East. How different, after all, is a look-alike house from a look-alike apartment building?

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at – if you will pardon the expression – a man's behind.

De ce nu mai ai prieteni? - Au muceg?it. Nu remarcasem c? au o dat? de expirare. Trebuie s? fii atent la asta. Prietenii mei au început s? aib? urme de putregai, pete verzi destul de scîrboase. Ceea ce spuneau începea cu-adev?rat s? miroas? r?u...

Pourquoi n'as-tu plus d'amis ? - Ils ont moisi. Je n'avais pas remarqué qu'ils avaient une date de péremption. Il faut faire attention à ça. Mes amis ont commencé à avoir des traces de pourriture, des taches vertes assez dégoûtantes. Ce qu'ils disaient commençait vraiment à sentir mauvais... ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p210)

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

If kids don't take to a person, I always feel they have inside knowledge that we don't have. They suss people out much easier.

A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.

She watched until it became an indistinct dot in the sky.

Looking down I saw the cat Basket touching me with one of her paws. I hadn't seen her move, though she was a good six

Kids absorbed more than most parents realized.

She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.

S he had a nice ass

But it wasn't the high foreheads, the flat noses, the half protrusion of thick lips that pulled Christine in, held her there, as she studied them one by one. Their physical appearances faded next to the expressions on their faces. Pure joy.

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face .... turned me over and said. Look ... twins!