Quotes About Observation

Since Borne never displayed any kind of threatening behavior, I never thought to take him as a threat. Even calling Borne a "he" began to feel faintly ridiculous as he didn't exhibit the aggression or self-absorption I expected from most males. Instead

To smell mixed with the strong coffee the faint pleasant scent of cedar from the ceiling's wooden beams. To be quiet and still and have all thought be channeled into observing the lives of creatures that stirred only after Sam had gone to sleep. It felt, over time, like not just a distraction but being part of something that as yet required nothing from her.

Funny how even then, as systems failed, flickered out, institutions revealed as paper thin, that so many couldn't bring themselves to believe in anything. That it helped if you didn't. Better to observe the rituals, use the catchphrases. Share your concern.

The intimacy that salamanders have with their environment forces them to be sentinels of environmental change.

She watched us go with envious fear.

This is what happens, perhaps, if you have been studying something so long that you can tell one sea anemone from another in an instant, could have picked out any denizen of those tidal pools from a lineup if it had committed a crime.

What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?

Never be tricked by the small print! It's right there in front of you, right there in front of you, and you can't even see it and then suddenly it makes you notice it! And I tell you, once you've seen it it's got you!

Control blinked once, twice, three times.

A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

such as muscle weakness, gait instability, or sensory impairments, and to directly observe the performance of key functional tasks.

Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu).

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

we cannot know what really happens, but only what we observe to happen.

When you know how to find a story – when you know what a story looks like and where they hide – you see them everywhere.

Consumers will tell you important stuff that you need to know if you shut up and listen.

She loved watching him eat, as she always loved watching someone enjoy her flavors. But this was also very different. She could hear him breathing and making involuntarily sounds of enjoyment while he chewed and swallowed. It was primal, and she was intrigued, watching him lose control and give in to that.

And just stared, unmoved, as though watching a world in which she was no longer an inhabitant.

While Megara's deep red hair and pale skin resembled her father's, she shared her mother's unusual violet eyes. Their eyes were so magnetic a day didn't go by when someone in the street or at the market didn't comment on them.

The girls may have only been ages six to eight, but they could spot a hottie when they saw one.

The two men hug while Kyle and I observe them in their natural habitat.

Jacques let's go of my arm and slowly steps away from me. He can sense a teakettle about to whistle when he sees one.