Quotes About Observation

In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.

The greatest concentration of recorded experience and observation came out of the thirty-year span between 1860 and 1890—the period covered by this book. It was an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude

One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

Tak ada yang lebih menarik daripada menyaksikan seseorang menyelam ke septic tank kotorannya sendiri.

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were. There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

He shook his head. "What?" she whispered, looking on the program to see what had caused his consternation. He pointed to her name. "Never in all my days have I seen a girl with so many boy names." She glanced at the neatly typeset Dr. Billy Jack Scott and smiled.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Spend time pondering not what you see," Merlin advised Arthur, "but why you see it.

When asked the secret of how to look at the world afresh, with delighted eyes, Merlin said, "You lack innocence. Having labeled a thing, you no longer see that thing, you see its label instead.

Countless acts of observation give substance and reality to what would otherwise be ghosts of existence. This solves the so-called "measurement problem" of

Where in Schrödinger's equation is the joy of being alive?

Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves.

Las primeras impresiones, que se toman en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, son las más poderosas. De los recientes estudios se deduce que las primeras impresiones y juicios rápidos son a menudo los más acertados.

We are the eyes of the universe looking at itself.

the possibility, so brilliantly intuited by Heisenberg, that nature gives every observer what he's looking for.

Al igual que dos pájaros posados en el mismo árbol, que son íntimos amigos, el ego y el yo moran en el mismo cuerpo. El primer pájaro come las frutas dulces y amargas de la vida, mientras que el otro lo observa en silencio.

Para notar algo hay que ignorar todo lo demás. Así es como lo no circunscrito se vuelve circunscrito. Cuando noto algo, ignoro todo aquello que lo rodea pero que contribuye a su existencia y, por lo tanto, forma parte de él.

Today I shall judge nothing that occurs." Non-judgment creates silence in your mind.

Cate stared intently at the land, as if trying to wring some knowledge from it, as if she were seeing it for the first time, although in fact it couldn't have been more familiar to her, the type of landscape against which she still judge all others.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

The proof is in the pudding - all you need to know is to look at the details.

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

dogs dig deep into your heart. They're in the room, on the floor, in your lap, on the bed, pestering you for treats, chewing your sock, burrowing under sheets, making you laugh, following you about, eating the cheese you left on the table, tearing in wild happy circles after baths. They trust. They are innocence. They are unjudgmental observers of your every unguarded moment.