Quotes About Observation

It's snowing." Rhys looked up at the light flakes that had started to drift down. "Yes, it is." I grimaced as I got smacked in the eyeball with a large wet flake when I looked up.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Thought my eyes was playin' tricks on me when Twyla came sweeping through the building's revolving

Old folk sure had a way of pointing out the obvious.

All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

The pot calls the kettle black.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

He casts a sheep's eye at the wench.

I can see with half an eye.

I ever loved to see everything upon the square.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Las mujeres saben siempre cuándo se las mira, aun sin verlas, y cuándo se las ve sin mirarlas.

Cuántas veces, sentado solo y solitario en uno de los bancos verdes de aquella plazuela, vio el incendio del ocaso sobre un tejado y alguna vez destacarse sobre el oro en fuego del espléndido arrebol el contorno de un gato negro sobre la chimenea de una casa!

Porque la calle forma un tejido en que se entrecruzan miradas de deseo, de envidia, de desdén, de compasión, de amor, de odio, viejas palabras cuyo espíritu quedó cristalizado, pensamientos, anhelos, toda una tela misteriosa que envuelve las almas de los que pasan.

Não posso negar o que vi, o que cheirei, o que senti, o que amei.

a terra pertence ao dono, mas a paisagem pertence a quem a sabe olhar.

The mental framework that makes science enjoyable is accessible to everyone. It involves curiosity, careful observation, a disciplined way of recording events, and finding ways to tease out the underlying regularities in what one learns. It also requires the humility to be willing to learn from the results of past investigators, coupled with enough skepticism and openness of mind to reject beliefs that are not sup-ported by facts.

Creative people are constantly surprised. They don't assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don't assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.

Observing, recording, and preserving the memory of both the large and small events of life is one of the oldest and most satisfying ways to bring order to consciousness.