Quotes About Observation

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

Men and women are totally different. Women check men out, too ... but we do it with style.

That was one of the ways she established social dominance over people: she would sit and watch until she frightened them, and then suddenly be friendly and free and just as charming as she had been formidable

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

an in-depth look reveals considerably more than a casual glance

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

Don't let the view gives you a wrong vision

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is.

The universe created me to see its own beauty through my eyes.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

I thought she liked you now. I've seen her kiss you and she says your name the special way she says Rina's and mine - like it tastes good.

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin

Jack couldn't help but watch Nonie as she left. She looked to be twenty-nine, thirty at the most, stood maybe five foot-four and was slender. She had shoulder-length, curly, walnut-colored hair and the largest most beautiful blue eyes he'd ever seem Her nose and ears were small in comparison to her full lips, which he'd give anything to kiss.

The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.

So do you anthropologists study primitive people?' 'Yes, but the only primitive person I have ever studied is myself.

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers. —CONFUCIUS

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.

At every age, the girls and women sit closer to each other and look at each other directly. At every age, the boys and men sit at angles to each other—in one case, almost parallel—and never look directly into each other's faces.

deflating like a stuck balloon. She couldn't help but watch as they looked into