Quotes About Observation

But at the next flare a big tree on the hill seemed to turn into fire before their eyes, every branch, twig, and leaf, and a purple cloud hung over it. 'Did you hear that crack?' asked Robbie Bell. 'That were its bones.' 'Why do you little niggers talk so much!' said Doc. 'Nobody's profiting by this information.' 'We always talks this much,' said Sam, 'but now everybody so quiet, they hears us.' (The Wide Net)

It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference.

As soon as a man stopped wandering and stood still an looked around him, he found a god in that place.

O critic? "negativ? se realizeaz? str?lucitor pe lucidit??i m?runte. Lucrul acesta îl ÅŸtia pân? ÅŸi Titu Maiorescu: cita cazul omului de bun-simÅ£ care s-a revoltat c? poetul compar? ochii iubitei cu dou? stele, c?ci este absurd s? g?seÅŸti o asem?nare între ochii mari, negri ÅŸi stelele mici, argintii.

Is all this an image of time? Everything disintegrates before our very eyes.

Dans la vie, il faut regarder par la fenêtre. (XI, 61)

Mijnheer Smith: Eén ding begrijp ik niet. Waarom zetten ze in de krant onder de burgerlijke stand altijd wèl de leeftijd van mensen die gestorven zijn en nooit die van pasgeborenen! Dat is onzin.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?

And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.

This polymath thinker is what IDEO's Tim Brown has called a "T-Shaped Person." T-shaped people have innate technical skills, along with empathy, curiosity, and great observational skills. "They have a principle skill that describes the vertical leg of the 'T'—they're mechanical engineers or industrial designers. But they are so empathetic that they can branch out into other skills, such as anthropology, and do them as well.

I could head east from Fifth Avenue and reliably reach Madison, turn south from 53rd and get to 52nd every single time. The scientist—or the Buddhist—might declare such perceptions were illusions, but not one of them would head uptown to get to the Bowery. They knew what they knew. They saw what they saw. So

Every parent is astonished when their child becomes, quite suddenly, a young person. Only yesterday … Why didn't we notice what was happening when it was happening? Why had we been too busy to enjoy her progress towards the cusp of maturity?

He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.

As my hero Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

They've met a thousand liars and heard a million lies. Yours ain't gonna fly. They won't tell you that you're full of crap—they'll keep you talking, getting you to lie about a bunch of things, making notes in their head while you tell yourself that you're the most persuasive motherfucker on the planet. They want you to walk away thinking you got away with it, or so panicked you screw up in front of them.

You have a judgmental face." "I'm a scientist. I look at everything this way.

But being manipulative isn't necessarily a mark of intelligence. I mean, have you ever met a child?" she asks rhetorically.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

You only see what you're paying attention to. You're likely to trail bear tracks all the way back to the bear.

While they're attention was on the front of the store,

your distance isn't because you're far away, it's because you're a thousand feet overhead, trying to look at all the little parts, seeing which ones need to be fixed.

We investigators often forget to look at things from an extremely paranoid point of view. If your theory of what someone would normally do isn't helping you catch the person, you have to assume they were doing something abnormal.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.