Quotes About Observation

La mayoría de las personas son como alfileres: sus cabezas no son lo más importante

Jonathan Swift

La sabiduría es como una gallina, que debemos sabe, cuyo cacareo debemos saber valorar y considerar, pues es acompañado por un huevo

Jonathan Swift

In fact, I think they should be called Lack's finches and not Darwin's. Darwin didn't see the significance of the birds. He thought there was just one species per island. He didn't even try to pull it together - he didn't do a bloody thing with them except collect them.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

It's simply a matter of faith—faith to observe God's hand in absolutely everything that happens. Faith to believe that the flashing wings of a blue jay fluttering across the yard is a gift orchestrated personally by the Lord.

Eu acredito que ela tem o tipo de magia que provoca revoluções e promove grandes descobertas. Não há nada que eu goste mais do que observar Gabriela no meio de um grupo de pessoas. Você sabe o que ela me lembra? Uma rosa perfumada num bouquet de flores artificiais.

Aprovechar los conflictos para el crecimiento personal, de eso se trata. En lugar de utilizar mi energía para cambiar al otro, utilizarla para observar qué hay de mí en eso que me molesta.

I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a flower, though they might look from the twilight of day until the twilight of night, for a whole life long.

To see a thing one has to comprehend it. An armchair presupposes the human body, its joints and limbs; a pair of scissors, the act of cutting. What can be said of a lamp or a car? The savage cannot comprehend the missionary's Bible; the passenger does not see the same rigging as the sailors. If we really saw the world, maybe we would understand it.

Además, confesar un hecho es dejar de ser el actor para ser el testigo, para ser alguien que lo mira y lo narra y que ya no lo ejecutó.

But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

I still hold two images of the ranch – the one I brought with me and the one my eyes finally saw.

But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a person that observes and narrates it and no longer the person that performed it.

A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky.

Hasta la hora del ocaso amarillo Cuántas veces habré mirado Al poderoso tigre de Bengala

Miró los árboles y el cielo subdivididos en rombos turbiamente amarillos, verdes y rojos.

Yo soy el único espectador de esta calle; si dejara de verla se moriría

Diecinueve años había vivido como quien sueña: miraba sin ver, oía sin oír, se olvidaba de todo, de casi todo.

Analysis, whether economic or other, never yields more than a statement about the tendencies present in an observable pattern. And these never tell us what will happen to the pattern but only what would happen if they continued to act as they have been acting in the time interval covered by our observation and if no other factors intruded. "Inevitability" or "necessity" can never mean more than this.

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.

So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.

Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.