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Quotes About Observation

But unless things are seen with fresh eyes, nothing's worth writing down.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Not knowing The name of the tree, I stood in the flood Of its sweet smell.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.
~ Matt de la Pena
Some people watch the world with their ears.
~ Matt de la Pena
He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.
~ Matt de la Pena
When it comes to attractive females my policy has always been to nod first and ask questions later.
~ Matt de la Pena
Look at your eyes. You've got bigger bags than Louis Vuitton.
~ Matt Dunn
You watched it! You can't unwatch it!
~ Matt Groening
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
~ Matt Haig
We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?
~ Matt Haig
The rook is my favourite piece,' she said. 'It's the one that you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it's the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig
We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~ Matt Haig
We only know what we perceive.  Everything we perceive is ultimately just our perception of it. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~ Matt Haig
Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?
~ Matt Haig
I didn't go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn't see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.
~ Matt Haig
Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~ Matt Haig
You are the observer of your mind, not its victim
~ Matt Haig
Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation. A lack of everything. When they are just there, floating in a tank that resembles nothing at all.
~ Matt Haig
artist   A human who notices the ridiculousness of being a human and paints, writes, builds, sculpts, films, acts, plays, sings, cries about it.
~ Matt Haig
The rook is my favorite piece. It's the one that you think you don't have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen and the knights, and the bishop because they are the sneaky ones. But it's the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.
~ Matt Haig
As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.' And Ash only saw the Nora he had fallen in love with and married, and so, in a way, that was the Nora she was becoming.
~ Matt Haig
but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~ Matt Haig
Erwin Schrödinger . . .' 'He of the cat.
~ Matt Haig
Shops are to Earth-dwellers what equation booths are to Vonnadorians.
~ Matt Haig