Quotes About Observation

The more experimental GPO alumnus Humphrey Jennings expunged voice-over altogether in favour of an associative flow of images. Jennings was a prime mover in the 1930s Mass Observation project, a census of national consciousness recording the fleeting thoughts of thousands of British citizens on a huge range of subjects, including motorists' gestures and shouts, beard-trimming styles and the 'cult of the aspidistra'.

Nick looked back for a moment at the arched sign, but it looked different when it was spelled right-ORPHANAGE. It wasn't EGANAHPRO any more.

Chameleons usually don't draw much of a crowd or get many ovations. By

How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? ...if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality...

One point is that strangeness usually takes an unexpected form, it is no good looking for something strange. It only happens when you're not looking.

Things only exist as long as you see them. And we are all of us nothing but the sum of our moods.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Of all the people I've ever met; you're one of them!

Are students so intimidated by expertise that they've lost confidence in their own powers of observation?

Without question, when people are uncertain, they are more likely to use others' actions to decide how they themselves should act.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves.

Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

ethology—the study of animals in their natural settings.

Meu propósito era observar, de perto, as técnicas e estratégias mais comuns e eficazes usadas por uma grande variedade de profissionais da persuasão.

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made," President Harry Truman observed. It was "what they called public power…

A watched child never learns.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

Ideas gathered from reading will always be bookish ideas. Go to the persons and objects directly. Have a painter's eye.