Quotes About Observation

What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.

Então não há os vivos que têm os olhos mortos?

Chama-se a isso o estratagema do relógio. O ponteiro dos segundos saltita tantas vezes que ninguém repara no seu movimento.

está-se escritor, não se é escritor. (...) o caminhar de um leão é uma dança em busca de corpo, o seu olhar foi feito para nos paralisar e nos roubar os sentidos. (...) O escritor faz?se como todas as pessoas se fazem: olhando o mundo como se fosse pela primeira vez e descobrindo no Tempo algo que pode ainda ser estreado.

She may not be all that bland. She looked quite fetching today, actually.' Terrance turned a glare on Stu. The man put his hands up as if to ward off an attack. 'Not that I noticed.

the most effective problem-finders become adept at searching for and identifying patterns.

learn to behave like an anthropologist who observes groups of people in natural settings. You cannot simply ask people questions; you must watch how they behave.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

I hear noises coming from his mouth but they don't sound like words," Daphne said.

Ladies, we're going on a stakeout.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

As the years passed, Ethan noticed that he recognized fewer faces than he had at the beginning, and by the same token an increasing number of residents failed to recognize him. He had never wanted acknowledgment, and thus he was at ease with the changing situation, merely finding it interesting the way so many people now walked past him, or through him, it seemed, as if he were invisible. This was to his liking,

Nothing's ordinary when you really look at it.

One of the things that haunts me as an artist is the way we project so much onto the world. I'm down on my luck, and the world looks a wretched place. I'm feeling prosperous, so I think the whole international scene is too. I'm unhappy, so I look around and all I see is unhappiness. I buy a certain brand of car, and suddenly I notice them everywhere. Or I'm in love and all I see is love, the whole world in love.

Effective leaders strike the right balance between doing (making things happen) and being (observing and reflecting).

you attract much more attention and a higher level of scrutiny than before.