Quotes About Observation

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

Children in wonder watching the stars, Is the aim and the end.

So when emotions come up, mind the gap. First feel them, then hold still without reacting, and then look—look at the gap.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.†

Now, my dear Cap, if you don't look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one's face, it is in that fellow's that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!

Observations always involve theory.

Someone is watching you. Or, someone is probably watching you. Or, you feel like someone's watching you. So you follow the rules whether someone's watching you or not.

No one in this family can see what's right in front of them.

At least, these guys were looking. And seeing something. A milkshake.

Other people adapt to you, asshole. You think there's no adapting going on, but you're fucking blind, Forrest. It's all around you, all the time.

Well, you can laugh. It's kind of a hippopotamus and it's kind of a car. And also, it's kind of a church. The meaning is what the viewer sees in it.

In other words, everyone in the panopticon knew they could be watched at all times, so in the end, only minimal watching actually needed to happen. The panopticon would create a sense of paranoia so pervasive that its inhabitants became practically self-governing.

They never go anywhere. Ever. Never see anyone. Now while I've been sick, they went everywhere, saw everyone?

I felt his eyes go over my body in my wet dress.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

The term which psychology has coined for our relative imperviousness to the dizzy variations that go on in the world around us is "constancy." The color, shape, and brightness of things remain to us relatively constant, even though we may notice some variation with the change of distance, illumination, angle of vision, and so on.