Quotes About Observation

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore

if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present

Has it taught you to look at things different?' he asked. i thought, How does he know about all that? But i didn't have to ask him, because he just nodded toward his house. 'I bounce around them four walls a lot, Victor. I write some letters, I keep in touch with people. Putting your thoughts on paper, it makes you stop and notice stuff. Kind of slows you down.

Oh, so if we look at the picture we can tell which word makes sense." Then, rather than praising them, she offers a comment that positions them powerfully: "Thanks for teaching us that.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.

She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.

SheAlmighty had tuned each person in a musical key, and Kasper could hear it. Best in the brief, unguarded moments when people were nearby but didn't yet know he was listening. So he waited by the window, as he was doing now.

What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Life is a poem, look carefully and you will find a verse. Peter Harrison December 2016

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".

He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.

Stupid people often say the smartest things.

Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more specific, watching is a hunt for something, a search, the way we search for a loved one's boat on the horizon, or an elk in the trees. Before a good painting they started watching for clues to their own life.

One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.

I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.

In my position with the first reports coming in I should have known. She sat up straight on her haunches and she cried silently.

I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.

If you became blind," I said, "if you were used to finding your way around a house and then, suddenly, one day had an accident--was attacked or something--and became blind, only then would you actually notice the furniture. It would always have been there, but you would never have been aware of it, you would just have gone around it. Only when something becomes hard to cope with do you see it. That's how you become aware of time--when it becomes hard to cope with.

El murciélago era listo. Lo único que tenía que hacer era cagar y esperar.

Grace glanced around; just a

no learner can afford to be dependent on the teacher for everything that needs to be noticed, so teachers have to teach children to look for possibilities.