Quotes About Observation

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently

He looked at his cactus again, the enormous green phallus, the thorned phallus.

The silent man is the best to listen to.

The effort whites put into observing racial etiquette has been demonstrated in the laboratory.

I'm on a government watch list. But I'm not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other's hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

But you're probably not manufacturing anything. That can make it tough to spot your by-products. People at a lumber company see their waste. They can't ignore sawdust. But you don't see yours. Maybe you don't even think you produce any by-products. But that's myopic.

Today, every business, including yours, is being observed and studied by others who want your revenues.

Today, every business, including yours, is being observed and studied by others who want your revenues. The world operates with such speed that as soon as potential competitors sniff out the fact that another business is doing well and they believe there's a buck to be made they'll be all over it like a cheap suit

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.

Off in the distance, the Ringer watched the Ford Tundra drive off into the night before it disappeared around a bend in the road. There were few lights

Nothing," she said. "But I've seen better handwriting from animals without opposable thumbs.

How can I tell?" "It doesn't matter. In this town, all the kids are gifted.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

We find what we seek and pay attention to

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

la mirada no se domina, a menudo actúa al margen de nuestras instrucciones y de nuestras censuras, o es que bajo ese pretexto le permitimos desobedecernos.

nadie sabe nada a lo que no ha asistido

Y que la sospecha permanente a su vez no es tolerable, porque resulta extenuante observarse sin cesar a uno mismo y a los otros, sobre todo al otro, al más cercano, y comparar con los recuerdos que jamás son fiables.

Decidió aguardar, sabedor de que la gente siempre habla al final, no puede soportar estarse callada indefinidamente y no contarse y no contar, no pavonearse un poco o no intrigar, no provocar compasión, horror o admiración, no inspirar lástima o temor, venideros o retrospectivos. Sí, la gente habla de más y sin querer, incluso cuando ha resuelto no hablar.