Quotes About Observation

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

How can you eat anything with eyes?

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people's plates.

I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.