Quotes About Observation

Understand: we can never really experience what other people are experiencing. We always remain on the outside looking in, and this is the cause of so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

Seducers are never self-absorbed. Their gaze is directed outward, not inward. When they meet someone their first move is to get inside that person's skin, to see the world through their eyes.

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?

the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. He

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. He

I don't know that I think so VERY much of that little song, Rat,' observed the Mole cautiously.

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It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.

Someone was out there, watching from afar.

What can be quieter than standing alone in a crowd of strangers?

Why don't you two take a little walk?" Eleni suggested. "The moon is beautiful tonight." "That's a great idea." Robby stood, releasing Olivia's hand. "Will ye walk with me, lass?" "Yes." She grabbed her sweater, pulled it over her head, then fixed the clip that held her hair in place on the back of her head. "No funny stuff," Eleni warned. "I'll be watching with the telescope.

He let himself into the security office and scanned the wall of surveillance monitors. Parking lot clear. Corridors empty. Cafeteria empty. Heart empty.

I thought I saw a puddy tat." He grinned. "You did, you did.

What is this intermediate step? Just after we observe what others do and just before we feel some emotion about it, we tell ourselves a story. We add meaning to the action we observed. We make a guess at the motive driving the behavior. Why were they doing that? We also add judgment—is that good or bad? And then, based on these thoughts or stories, our body responds with an emotion.

Start with a situation where you observe someone becoming emotional and you're still under control—such as a meeting (when you're not personally under attack and are less likely to get hooked). Do your best to get at the person's source of fear or anger.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like ! It was born 15 minutes ago it looks like a potato.

I discovered, though unconsciously and insensibly, that the pleasure of observing and reasoning was a much higher one than that of skill and sport. The primeval instincts of the barbarian slowly yielded to the acquired tastes of the civilized man.

It was a rare thing for someone in his position to see what death was, not in the instant but in the aftermath, where all its energies were absorbed.

He thought they might be shy around him, but in the spirit of three-year-olds, they actually paid him no attention at all.

curiosity, a trait they'd see as inherently human (the irony there is that I've witnessed curiosity in many animals and a dull lifeless lack of it in many humans).

Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at themselves.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.