Quotes About Observation

Columbus says he decided to send "two men up-country" to see what they could see. "They traveled for three days," he wrote, "and found an infinite number of small villages and people without number, but nothing of importance."35 People without number—but nothing of importance. It would become a motto for the ages.

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

The day has eyes; the night has ears.

Pourquoi sommes-nous autant marqués par un détail, un geste, qui font de ces instants minimes le coeur d'une époque?

miré las estanterías de libros. Me da la impresión de que se puede saberlo todo de una persona observando los libros que tiene.

the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.

Nada mejor que las vidas ajenas para no vivir la propia.

Debo confesarle que no estoy aquí por casualidad. Me condujo su mirada. Cuando me lo cruzo en el ascensor, usted tiene una forma extraña de mirarme. Una mirada absolutamente neutra.

Bueno, comprendo: usted no habla. Es raro, habría jurado lo contrario. Tiene pinta de tener sus teorías. Quizás me las cuente después, ¿es así? Me hará una síntesis. Si tenemos tiempo. Con lo que yo he vivido, necesitaríamos por lo menos un siglo para este análisis. Un siglo incluyendo los días feriados.

Se puede medir la felicidad por el paso que lleva cada uno por la calle.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?

An asana should be a kind of meditation in form or movement. Therefore, we should always put our minds into a sacred space of silence, observation, and detachment while performing Yoga.

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people - that would otherwise have melted from my memory.

It's better to be looked over than overlooked. —MAE WEST

People do not invent languages by writing grammars, they write grammars – at least, the first grammars to be written for any given language – by observing the tacit, largely unconscious, rules that people seem to be applying when they speak. Yet once a book exists, and especially once it is employed in schoolrooms, people feel that the rules are not just descriptions of how people do talk, but prescriptions for how they should talk.

Kandiaronk] swings back to his original observation: the whole apparatus of trying to force people to behave well would be unnecessary if France did not also maintain a contrary apparatus that encourages people to behave badly. That apparatus consisted of money, property rights and the resultant pursuit of material self-interest:

One of the few positive side effects of a prison system is that, simply by providing us information of what happens, and how humans behave under extreme situations of deprivation, we can learn basic truths about what it means to be human.

The Neolithic botanists'] was not a science of domination and classification, but one of bending and coaxing, nurturing and cajoling, or even tricking the forces of nature, to increase the likelihood of securing a favourable outcome. Their 'laboratory' was the real world of plants and animals, whose innate tendencies they exploited through close observation and experimentation.

We remained in our seats as everyone around us stood with the personal items they had rushed to retrieve. Why do people always do that? It's not like they can go anywhere.

society. The orbital technology enabling this observation is itself one of the strange and striking aspects of the transition now gripping Earth. If up to now the defining characteristic of Earth has been planetary-scale life, then what about these planetary-scale lights? Might this spreading, luminous net be part of a new defining characteristic? Even

Alle waren jetzt damit beschäftigt, den Tisch zu decken, und niemand außer ihr bemerkte, was das Baby tat. Es drückte seine Lippen in das Innere von Avrams Hand, blökte ein sanftes und angenehmes Ba-ba-ba und genoss mit seinem ganzen Sein den Klang und das Kitzeln, das es wohl in den Lippen spürte. Auch in Oras Hals und Mund schwebte ein anregendes Summen, ihre Lippen spürten es auch, und in ihr murmelte es stimmlos ba-ba-ba.

If you love your government, you are not paying attention.

Satirists are merely impatient obituary writers.