Quotes About Observation

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

I think she suspects something, though. We've had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row." His voice drawled, and my smile deepened.

He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. He cracked my mirror,she said, clearly angry.

And I'm not spying! I'm evaluating!" "It's the same difference!

Uh, guys?" Jenks said, hovering at the window. "Fountain Square is on fire." "What?" I jumped to my feet and turned in one motion. Al rushed to the window, and we pressed our foreheads to the glass, looking down.

His eyes went past us to his kids as they descended upon the mouse, who had finally made a dash for the living room and found itself in its own personal hell.

You want to play the winner?" I called out to Ivy, lounging on a chair with her back to the wall as she pretended to read a magazine and watch us without being obvious about it. She'd put herself right in the sun, which told me she'd had a rough morning. She sat in the sun only when she was frustrated.

Jenks watched for a moment from the rim of the bucket, then said, You look like a porno star on your hands and knees, mopping in your underwear. Push it baby he moaned. Push it!

His seat belt was on, and his hands dropped from where he'd been fiddling with the visor. "You look small," he finally said, looking both innocent and wise.

Immediately Trent went back to mowing down those cookies, slowing when he realized I was staring at him. What are we up to now? Ten?

Tengo que hacer la pregunta adecuada?-pregunté. Él negó con la cabeza. -No existe ninguna pregunta. Lo único que cuenta es lo que ves con tus propios ojos.

And you knows ugly when you sees ugly, don't ya, sweet thang.

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

Strange how one remembered faces until you tried to look at them in your mind, when they turned away from you.

A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.

He came to realize that no one was watching him, no one was listening. The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

You've located intrinsic worth in the wrong place," she said to all of them, over the common band. "It's like a rainbow. Without an observer at a twenty-three-degree angle to the light reflecting off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty-three-degree angle to the universe.

Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.

Statistically it was not greatly different than it had been for previous generations, but anecdotally it had become so prominent that every problem was noticed and remarked. The cognitive error called ease of representation thrust them into a space where every problem they witnessed convinced them they were in an unprecedented colapse. They were getting depressed.

They [women] looked at you-they looked at everything-with a most piercing glance. They were the most curious animals of all, even more than their sisters fox and cat.

The Amex man had even lifted his wrist to his mouth to take down a note, in a gesture obviously meant to be seen:

Kim Stanley Robinson

Buddhism begins in personal experience. Observation of one's surroundings and one's reactions, and one's thoughts.

Existence is the experiment itself.