Quotes About Observation

KEY CONCEPT Descriptive Praise improves behavior The concept of Descriptive Praise is easy to grasp: 1. Notice a little thing that your child is doing that is right—or even the smallest step in the right direction! 2. Tell your child exactly what you notice. Describe the behavior in detail. 3. Leave out the over-the-top superlatives.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

Even though he saw an entire field covered with flowers, Chihaya never thought to pick them. Instead, he took me to see the place where they were blooming.

You can learn too much from experience.  A cat that sits on a hot stove will not sit on a hot stove again but unfortunately the cat will not sit on a cold one either."  - Mark Twain

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don't.

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

This might be good, I thought as I studied the crowd. There were several definitely intelligen?t guys present, not strobe-lig?ht intellects but people who could make you uncomforta?ble in a debate if you got too much beyond what you absolutely had the facts on.

This shooting star had apparently been sedentarized in my bailiwick-so, good.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Analyse politique? c'est au dela de l'observation directe, l'interpretation factuelle et evenementielle c'est savoir discerner ce qui fait sensation et essayer de comprendre ce qui sous-tend l'apparente realite qui frappe nos sens de plein fouet

But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old. I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face. She put her small hand on mine. The world is wonderful , she said. All its little things. It is wonderful .

Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

bomonti, ne garip sokak ad?: oralarda böyle sokak ad? olmas? garip. çok giderdi, az bahsederdi: her zaman yapt??? gibi. beni ona anlatmaz, onu bana anlatmaz: herkesin bir yeri var. gülümsedi

Ben bütün insanlara hayran?m Olric. Bütün sat?c?lar, biletçi yanlar?ndan geçerken nas?l gülümsemek gerekti?ini ve arkas?ndan nas?l küfredilece?ini biliyorlar.

Onu görüyorlard?. Hiçbir ?ey yapmadan, aptalca bir düzen içinde ya?arken kimse görmüyordu. Sonra, al???lm???n d???ndaen küçük bir davran??? görüyorlard?. Nas?l görüyorlard? acaba? Sizi gördük diyorlard?.

Bir insan? gerçekten seyretmek isteyen, onun oyununa gerçekten kat?lan biri, o insan?n ancak kafas?nda ya?ayabilir.

Seni tan?madan önce a?açlar?n çiçek açt??? ve yaprak döktü?ü mevsimleri hep kaç?r?rd?m derdi. Resim yapmay? sevdi?im halde denizin mavisini bilmezdim, yapra??n ye?ilinin her mevsimde de?i?ti?ine dikkat etmemi?tim...