Quotes About Observation

No hagas nada en secreto, porque el tiempo lo ve todo y lo oye todo, y lo revela todo.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

I lack altogether patience to live. I cannot see the grass grow, but since I cannot I don't feel at all inclined to. My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

Unless you grasp that it requires all the strength of spirit to die, that the hero always dies before his death, you will not come particularly far in your observations on life.

Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?

Tyhmät ja touhukkaat ihmiset kuvittelevat, että he toimivat ja toimivat ja toimivat. Sen sijaan käy suorastaan tietynlaisten älypäiden tunnusmerkistä se taituruus, jota osoittaen he välttävät toimimisen.

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

We tend not to notice what is not there when often absence is the more vital thing.

But it looked at Teal'c

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Tüm resmi görebilenler, çerçevenin d???na ad?m atanlard?r.

Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

What is her name? I don't know. I know her eyebrows.

Unashamed, accustomed to solitude, he began to enjoy his near-invisibility. From his position at the edge of the school around him, he took vicarious pleasure in the activities of those around him, silently celebrating the rise or fall of this or that playground emperor, or the examination failures of particularly unappetizing class-fellows: the delights of the spectator.

It's as if we're standing still and the world is traveling past us. Or maybe the world is TV and I don't know who's in charge of the zapper.

Your whole picture of the world broke, he said, and you felt like you had gone mad. Yes. And I didn't even notice. Boys. They notice nothing.

a person must sometimes choose what he will see and what he will not; look away, look away from there now.

It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.

Maybe the little sahib is copying us—blinking when we blink." And Amina: "We'll blink in turn and watch.

She has lost her city eyes. Who you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people.

Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

The camera sees broken windows.