Quotes About Observation

Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.