Quotes About Observation

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce!

Prince Albert was gazing out of the window into the dark streets. Grace's eyes locked with Prince Albert's and she immediately sank into curtsey. On rising, she blushed to see that he was nodding in acknowledgment and smiling. Not knowing what else to do, she curtseyed again, and while her knee was still bent, the traffic eased and the royal carriage moved off.

It is important to note that children are rarely as unaware of their environment as they appear to be during withdrawal. In fact, many adopted toddlers have amazing insight and memory of people and events, and are astute observers, even when they appear oblivious of their surroundings. Therefore, it is important not to stop giving comfort, support, and structure. Those efforts are received and processed on some level even if not immediately apparent in the child's overt behavior.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Even though you can hide from the earth, heaven sees you act. AMISH PROVERB

but you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

There are four kinds of people in this world: •those who make things happen •those who watch things happen •those who wonder what happened •those who don't know that anything happened! I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.

Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It's almost like being in two places at the same time.

My mind is so serene but concentrated and I am watching it like a cat a mouse. I

That one doesn't paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure; one paints the effect of a time of day on a landscape, a seascape, or a figure.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Her estimate of human nature, and more particularly of her own sex, went up as the coffee went down.

Nature had no mysteries, only facts not yet correctly observed and analyzed. Proceed from this sound first principle, and one would never miss one's way.

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.

Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Your eyes keep going back to them, for lack of anything more interesting to look at, and then you feel bad for staring.

thought, for all her lightness, she was studying me. Not subtly. She was never a subtle woman; but with the semi-direct frankness with which children survey strange people.