Quotes About Observation

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

Never trust an experimental result until it has been confirmed by theory

Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla.

While from a proud tower in the townDeath looks gigantically down.

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we

I have seen some very beautiful things through my anger, and what consoles me a little, is that through my anger I do not stop looking...

I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.

When you are giving feedback, try to be descriptive and minimize judgment.

As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours On the shore of the turbid Spoon With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow, Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead, First his waving antennae, like straws of hay, And soon his body, colored like soap-stone, Gemmed with eyes of jet. And you wondered in a trance of thought What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

am inclined to believe it to have been the most salutary, the most practical piece of training which my Father ever gave me. It forced me to observe sharply and clearly, to form visual impressions, to retain them in the brain, and to clothe them in punctilious and accurate language.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Americans consider the sidewalk an anonymous backstage space, whereas for the French it is the stage itself.

I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!

Afternoon on a Hill" I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!

En la colina de enfrente y oculta tras un matorral, Laura ha seguido, sin poderlos descifrar, los movimientos del recién llegado.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

le he visto trabajar estos anos y le auguraba un gran futuro en el marco ce la administración pública. Es usted cumplidor, puntual, serio, respetuoso con sus superiores, no tiene ambición y nunca toma iniciativas.

Son raros los hombres. Recién hice una pasada por el patio llevando café y estaban todos callados, mirándose los pies. Papá, Ernesto, mi marido, Manuel, Pedro y sus primos. Ocho hombres en completa inacción y absoluto silencio. Creo que si les hubiese preguntado: "¿En qué están pensando?", los ocho me habrían contestado: "En nada", y habrían sido sinceros.

A veces uno vive una vida idiota. En una de esas, hasta lo sabe. Sabe que es la vida de un idiota. Pero mientras no haya un testigo, alguien que lo vea, alguien que lo diga, puede pasar, puede seguir.