Quotes About Observation

You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

As a rule, politicians tend to remember the things they wish to emulate or the things they hope to avoid.

Fear, Aristotle observed, does not strike those who are "in the midst of great prosperity.

Fact is what we can see or discern; truth is the larger significance we extrapolate from those facts.

After his own presidency, Adams observed, "The people…ought to consider the President's office as the indispensable guardian of their rights," adding: "The people cannot be too careful in the choice of their Presidents.

In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere.

In fact ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere. Everywhere.

Yes, observing is one of my biggest assets," he said, "I always observe.

Pilot had never seen this particular ghost before. Head resting on paws, he mildly wondered what it was doing here. Dogs see ghosts about as often as people see cats. They're there but they're no big deal.

Good old Nails ambled up the stairs and sat down next to me, panting out a kind of quick Kaa-kaa-kaa sound. We watched the tomato pickers and I put my hand on his rock head. Bull terriers have rocks for heads; they only pretend that they are skin and bones.

Do you work out, Michael? Attend a gym, or anything like that?' 'No. Why do you ask?' 'It's just that you have unusually firm buttocks. For a writer, that is. It was the first thing I noticed about you.

Aveva degli occhi azzurri penetranti e intelligenti che avrebbero certamente inchiodato i miei con la forza e la fissità del loro sguardo, se io non li avessi deliberatamente evitati, preferendo soffermarmi sulla carnagione leggermente screziata e sui suoi folti capelli ramati.

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

She didn't need to see more people, she took money from hundreds of people at the bakery, men who stared at her indecently, old women who tweezed coins from cloth pouches as if picking a nose with thumb and finger.

Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

He didn't hide his teeth, which were bright yellow, like the van we'd unloaded.

To be a manager is to be part detective. The clues are everywhere, the skill is in reading them. When

Try to be one of the people," said Henry James, "on whom nothing is lost." As a writer I considered myself observant, but how much was lost on me! Birds may be everywhere, but they also—lucky for them—inhabit an alternate universe, invisible to most of us until we learn to look in a new way. And even after I had been shown them, aspects kept eluding me.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that's not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It's like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it's really like, instead of how it feels when you're in the middle of it.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.