Quotes About Observation

There's a man at the gate, watching me. 'Have ya fallen and hurt yourself, or are ye just afraid of the cow?

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience.

While the origin of Cptsd is most often associated with extended periods of physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood, my observations convince me that ongoing verbal and emotional abuse also causes it.

At that moment, Ingrid remembered 'The Five Orange Pips' and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after.

In 'A Scandal in Bohemia', he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.

He glanced at her in what she thought seemed a normal way. Everyone else was trying to peer into her soul, to measure the pain inside.

A quick, sharp laugh from Quint broke the thread of tension. "What a pair of assholes," he said. "I seen that coming since you came aboard this morning.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

There is a difference between seeing the world and being in it, which is one point that alludes most people.

A dropped cat always lands on its feet. Buttered toast always lands buttered side down. Strap buttered toast to back of cat , & drop. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground ...

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all is for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Not to be taken in is something Père Goriot as a whole teaches: it's about learning to see the world as it is, not as it claims to be.

It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replaced by a different, more complex, person. You watch him revolve in this new company, revealing new facets, and there is nothing you can do but hope you like these other sides as much as you like the side that seemed whole when it faced only you.

God to have founded the earth by wisdom is hardly obvious, but we don't need to try to work it all out. It's enough to observe that wisdom and creation are inseparable—without wisdom, there is no creation.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

He could have walked in through the main gate and they'd never know. Usually. And that was the one thing that Adam had lectured him about ceaselessly. There was no usual.

He knew very little about running a case, and everything about watching over people's shoulders.

I've studied this city's society closely while I've been here; it's conservative and sliding down the decadence decay curve.

Arnice was lying motionless on the cot at the end, his head swaddled, leaving only narrow slits for his eyes and mouth.

Despite Alexandre's considerable height, Dellian could never

Joey almost smiled at how the spy chief's jaw muscles were working hard to keep his expression neutral.

Our conclusion is that you are simply studying us. We would now like to know why. As sentient entities we have that right.

Rather than tending to assume that observation was in principle correctible, empiricists ... did not think it was possible (or even desirable) to rectify or perfect perception, because ... For them, all human knowledge is always necessarily circumscribed, conditioned by context, and conceived in terms of relationship