Quotes About Observation

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

Look for what's there, but most of all, look for the relationships between things. Find the systems

satirist Caran d'Ache

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

He hadn't observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates' hands.

Meg carried a purse when she went to the office or the Market Square, but it was small and didn't hold anything of particular interest. He knew that because he'd looked.

It's none of my business, but I am curious," Saetan said. "Why are you standing out here displaying your assets?

Emily is in the parlour brushing the carpet," records Charlotte in 1828. Unsociable even at home

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

They saw her moving quietly back there like a metaphysician in a novel

It is hard for fish to be aware of water. It is hard for us to notice something that's an ingrained pattern shaping our habitual thought.

Aye subtle hen

Scientists are aware that all the lab-rat tests in the world, once compiled, can tell us only how lab rats act when tested, and that is how we must begin to view school: all that you can learn in a school classroom is what goes on inside a school classroom.

All children are beautiful: the thing they do with their eyes that seems so dazzling when they take you all in, or seem to take you all in; it's like being looked at by an alien, or a cat - who knows what they see?

They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight...

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Mr. Wiggles seems taken with you." "It tried to urinate on me the other day. I prefer not to be 'taken' by something like that.

Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.

This was what marriage was like, being able to look one's fill.

Tell me what has happened in this week that you've been absent from my window.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.

Noah had never had to wait in line to go into a grocery store,