Quotes About Observation

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

A watched child never learns.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Listen, listen, listen.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.