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Quotes About Observation

??te güne? hac? Frenkler, i?te güne?! Tozlu ta?lara de?il i?te güne?e bak?n! En eski eser, binlerce, milyonlarca y?l?n ?????!
~ Unknown
Bizim gibiler ancak oyunlarda ölür. Bizim gibiler dü?ünceleri yüzünden ölmez. Her zaman 'millet birbirini öldürür.' Biz sadece seyrederiz onlar?.
~ Unknown
You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?
~ Obert Skye
My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.
~ Octavia Butler
You are a good man," she had observed contentedly. "And it has been too long since I had this." He was surprised
~ Octavia E. Butler
Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive!
~ Octavia E. Butler
Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?
~ Octavia E. Butler
questions more readily than an adult. I looked at him. He looked back, curious and unafraid. He was not Rufus. I could see
~ Octavia E. Butler
He shrugged. "It happened. I saw it. You vanished and you reappeared. Facts.
~ Octavia E. Butler
After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.
~ Unknown
Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.
~ Unknown
It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.
~ Unknown
Toda mirada por encima del hombro puede adulterar los inocentes escenarios
~ Unknown
I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you're looking at.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
At night I observe Venus, closely following the transitions of this beautiful Damsel. I prefer her as the Evening Star, when she appears as if out of nowhere, as if by magic, and goes down behind the Sun. A spark of eternal light. It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
W jakim? sensie takie osoby jak ona, te, które w?adaj? piórem, bywaj? niebezpieczne. Narzuca si? od razu podejrzenie fa?szu - ?e taka osoba nie jest sob?, tylko okiem, które bezustannie patrzy, a to, co widzi, zamienia w zdania; w ten sposób okrawa rzeczywisto?? ze wszystkiego, co w niej najwa?niejsze, z niewyra?alno?ci.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Uve?er promatram Veneru, podrobno pratim promjene te lijepe Gospo?ice. Više je volim kao ve?ernju zvijezdu, kada se pojavljuje niotkud, kao za?arana, i spušta za Suncem, Iskra vje?ne svjetlosti. Upravo u Sumrak zbivaju se najzanimljivije stvari, jer tada se zagla?uju jednostavne razlike. Mogla bih živjeti u vje?nom Sumraku." str. 48.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
me, a homegrown detective, a private investigator of signs and coincidences. He evidently noticed my unease,
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Reject everything, do not look, shut your eyes and change your gaze, awaken another one that almost everyone has, but that few use.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
In a way, people like her, who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind - that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality - its inexpressibility.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Cz?owiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, ?e go widzisz, ale dlatego, ?e to on na ciebie patrzy.
~ Olga Tokarczuk