Quotes About Observation

Look at me...and tell me what you see.' Norma put her pencil down and studied him. 'You look just like you always did, Macky, only older.' 'How much older?' 'You look... oh, I don't know, Macky, you look the same to me as you always did. I don't know what you look like. Go look for yourself in the mirror.' 'I want an objective view. I see myself every day.' 'Well, I see you every day too. How am I supposed to know what you look like?

What can I tell you about the town? I suppose if you had driven through it back

Politically Incorrect was the name of the show Bill Maher hosted in the 1990s. It's also an apt description of the man himself. Now host of -- HBO's hit show Real Time, I find Maher to be one of the sharpest observers of American politics and life in general out there. It doesn't mean I always agree with him. I always find him funny, though.

Confucian axiom "If one's mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear

michinobe no / mukuge wa uma ni / kuware keri16 The roadside thistle, eager To see the travellers pass, Was eaten by the passing ass! CHP Mallow flowers By the side of the road — Devoured by my horse. DK

planting dates accurately, begin collecting your own garden notes. Each season, review your notes to detect patterns, then adjust

neighbors saw you get out of the car. And you

It seems I've stopped speaking with my voice. Part of me fell asleep and just watches.

Suddenly I'm all alone in the world. I see all this from the summit of a mental rooftop. I'm alone in the world. To see is to be distant. To see clearly is to halt. To analyze is to be foreign. No one who passes by touches me. Around me there is only air. I'm so isolated I can feel the distance between me and my suit. I'm a child in a nightshirt carrying a dimly lit candle and traversing a huge empty house.

I believe in the world as in a daisy, Because I see it. But I don't think about it, Because to think is to not understand. The world wasn't made for us to think about it (To think is to have eyes that aren't well) But to look at it and to be in agreement.

O que é preciso é ser-se natural e calmo Na felicidade ou na infelicidade, Sentir como quem olha, Pensar como quem anda, E quando se vai morrer, lembrar-se de que o dia morre, E que o poente é belo e é bela a noite que fica...

All I ever asked of life was that it should pass me by without my even noticing it.

Passa uma borboleta por diante de mim E pela primeira vez no Universo eu reparo Que as borboletas não têm cor nem movimento, Assim como as flores não têm perfume nem cor. A cor é que tem cor nas asas da borboleta, No movimento da borboleta o movimento é que se move, O perfume é que tem perfume no perfume da flor. A borboleta é apenas borboleta E a flor é apenas flor.

Believe me, if there were no intelligent people pointing out all our various human ills, humanity would not even notice them. Sensitive people make others suffer out of sympathy.

No hables... sucedes demasiado... me apena estar viéndote.

Where's your tambourine, O bear that just stands there?

Sou do tamanho do que vejo!

All I want from myself is to observe life. There's a glass sheet between me and it. I want the glass to be perfectly clear, so that it will in no way hinder my examination of what's behind it, but I always want the glass.

To observe oneself as one observes nature; to gaze on one's impressions as one would on a field — that is true wisdom.

I hide behind the door, so that Reality won't see me when it enters.

I am the size of what I see And not the size of my stature.

Science describes things as they are; art as they are felt, as they are felt to be.

Quien está en un rincón del salón baila con todos los bailarines. Lo ve todo y, al verlo todo, lo vive todo.

Let us watch Time painting the world and finding the resulting picture not only false but hollow.