Quotes About Observation

Happy people are poor psychologists.

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

Given enough time, the mobiles would train the eyes to look without seeing.

la red muestra lo mismo que se ve en un patio escolar, con la diferencia de que en este patio no hay maestros, ni policías, ni moderadores que vigilen lo que sucede".

The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness and agility, a terrific certainty of movement, not to mention a ready wit, a talent for observation and strained attention.

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

So this is death, observed Eddie. He felt his shoulder-blades, passed a hand above his head. No wings. No halo, either. Guess we didn't make the grade as angels.

You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything- your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that.

Being cautious is new territory; my specialty was leaping, not looking. These days I pay attention. You can stumble uphill as easily as down. Ice comes in smooth and corrugated. Plastic bags are slippery underfoot. A big dog can knock you to your knees.

I watch the dogs, one tiny dachshund so skinny he looks like a single stroke of calligraphy.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.

When I see it, this is what I see.

Pause for a moment and a place will pool out around you, not as an illusion but as a fact, in details it would not have had if you had not stopped to look.

Once I looked over at Welton and he was wiping his nose. I couldn't tell if he was crying or on nasal spray.

I cannot get used to the dispassion with which wealthy Greeks contemplate their impoverished compatriots;

Nadie ha visto nunca a un perro hacer un intercambio justo y deliberado de un hueso por otro con otro perro. Nadie ha visto a un animal que, con gestos y sonidos naturales, indique a otro: esto es mío y esto es tuyo; estoy dispuesto a darte esto a cambio de eso

must necessarily be small; and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures, on the contrary, which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of workmen that it is impossible to collect them all into the same workhouse

it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

encouraging nod of the head. Through the gigantic glass windows

Our days were full of tiny moments like these, when she loved me even when I was not looking. When she saw me even when I felt like I was hiding.