Quotes About Observation

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it. Let us stop him at the top of the hill on some excuse, and have a good look at him.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.

But in me he saw at once a weak, yielding will. You can feel it in people at a mere glance—there's no need of words.

When I watch a fight, I like to study one boxer's problem, solve it, and then communicate my solution vocally.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

Well, did Owl always have a letter-box in his ceiling?" "Has he?" "Yes, look." "I can't," said Pooh. "I'm face downwards under something, and that, Piglet, is a very bad position for looking at ceilings." "Well, he has, Pooh." "Perhaps he's changed it," said Pooh. "Just for a change.

Non apibus dubitandem est. (You never can tell with bees.) ~ Winnie ille Pu

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

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Dane followed the man inside and noted the opulently decorated foyer. Somebody had lots of money with zero decorating skills.

Dallas is small enough: Highland Park is like living in a retirement home when it comes to knowing what everyone is doing.

All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling of attention in our direction.

I set an essay . . . 'Give a snail's description from the front door to the school gate.

El periodismo sólo tiene una manera de horadar la realidad, y es la manera que el mar ocupa con la roca: con el tiempo y el empuje constante de olas que a veces son suaves y a veces poderosas.

Magdalena doesn't ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That's how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It's the things you don't say. That's what always gives a person away.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

One does not paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure. One paints an impression of an hour of the day.

Para decidir si algo está 'bien' o 'mal', tenemos una regla muy sencilla: la redacción debe ser verdadera. Debemos escribir lo que vemos, lo que oímos, lo que hacemos.

Then why are you begging? – To find out what effect it has and to observe people's reaction

Pour décider si c'est "Bien" ou "Pas bien", nous avons une règle très simple: la composition doit être vraie. Nous devons décrire ce qui est, ce que nous voyons, ce que nous entendons, ce que nous faisons.