Quotes About Observation

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

The three foundations of learning: Seeing much; studying much; and suffering much.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Many Aquarian men experience the sensation of watching life as if they are outside of their body. Yes, some of them are crazy, but most of them are just so profoundly detached that they are able to separate not just from the rest of the world, but from themselves, too.

The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable." -Professor Charles Homer Haskins

Wrote a skeptical E. B. White: "Although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.")

A]fter all, the position of a reader in a book is very like that occupied by angels in the world, when angels still had any credibility. Yours is, like theirs, a hovering, gravely attentive presence, observing everything, from whom nothing is concealed, for angels are very bright mirrors. Hearts and minds are as open as the landscape to their view, as to yours; like them you are in the fabled world invisible.

Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants

Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self

write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant way. Set them next to each other. See what happens.

The dead walk into poems all the time Nobody complains

the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky.

I adore watching other people in restaurants, beautiful people toying with steak tartare, hoping to be recognized, married couples eating but not talking, lovers eating each other, illicit couples ducking nevously behind the celery and the gristicks every time the door opens, children doing more whining than dining, storing food in the corners of their cheeks like cherubs at the corner of old maps, then suddenly spraying spinach all over the snow-white tablecloth.

Careful observation and a questioning attitude to findings are central to the scientific method of investigation, which underpins physics and all the sciences.

Ant 1: So, uh, do you ever worry that your itsy little neck is just going to snap under the weight of your head? Ant 2: Stop asking me that. You ask me that, like, every five minutes. Ant 1: Sometimes I notice my antennae out of the corner of my eye and I'm all, like: AHH! Something is on me! Get it off! Get it off! Ant 2: Yeah, the antennae again. Listen, I just remembered, I have to go walk around aimlessly now.

His name was Mr. O. H. Lee and sometimes she said hello and he said nothing.

The responses were the same, sometimes almost word for word with what he had said earlier. As it continued, officers appeared on the far side of the glass partition and Fritz stopped, sometimes turning to the federal men—"You

A dent was found in the upper frame of the windshield. This too was measured and observed. Frazier thought that a bit of flying metal might have hit it.* Inch by inch, the FBI men examined the exterior of the automobile,