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Quotes About Observation

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.
~ Frank Herbert
Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
~ Frank Herbert
Time can also be a place, Moneo, Leto said. Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
~ Frank Herbert
Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?
~ Frank Herbert
Now, watch these matters closely for I wish to see this room later through your wisdom.
~ Frank Herbert
Paul stepped past her, lifting his binoculars. He adjusted their internal pressure with a quick twist, focused the oil lenses on the other cliff, lifting golden tan in morning light across open sand. Jessica
~ Frank Herbert
La esperanza ofusca la observación.
~ Frank Herbert
Neki doga?aji imaju kraj, ali nemaju po?etak; drugi zapo?inju, ali ne završe. Sve to ovisi o to?ki na kojoj promatra? stoji.
~ Frank Herbert
Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.
~ Frank Herbert
She stared at him. He senses truth! Could he be the one? Could he truly be the one? She extinguished the excitement, reminding herself: "Hope clouds observation.
~ Frank Herbert
Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.
~ Frank Herbert
Neki ljudi nikad ništa ne zapaze. Život im se tek doga?a. Provedu ga u ne?emu što je tek malo više od neke vrste tupog trajanja, te srdito i ozloje?eno odbijaju sve što bi ih moglo izvesti iz tog lažnog spokojstva.
~ Frank Herbert
And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.
~ Frank Herbert
His mind went to other parts of that strange conversation: weirding room. He looked to his left where she had pointed. We Fremen. So that was a Fremen. He paused for the mnemonic blink that would store the pattern of her face in his memory—prune-wrinkled features darkly browned, blue-on-blue eyes without any white in them. He attached the label: The Shadout Mapes.
~ Frank Herbert
Time can also be a place, Moneo," Leto said. "Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
~ Frank Herbert
Evidence! What is evidence except those things you are allowed to perceive? That's what Law tries to control: carefully managed reality.
~ Frank Herbert
Le esplosioni sono anche compressioni del tempo. I mutamenti osservabili nell'universo naturale sono tutti esplosivi, entro certi limiti e sotto certi punti di vista; altrimenti non li notereste. Un mutamento continuo e uniforme, se sufficientemente rallentato, non verrebbe notato da osservatori il cui arco di osservazione, nel tempo, è troppo breve. Perciò, io vi dico che ho visto mutamenti che voi non avreste mai notato.
~ Frank Herbert
Umut gözlemi buland?r?r.
~ Frank Herbert
Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.
~ Frank Herbert
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
~ Frank Herbert
I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature." "We live longer and observe more," he said. "I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
~ Frank Herbert
stood up to get a better look at it. Paul leaned forward, staring at the machine. Scaled against the tiny projected
~ Frank Herbert
Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything which might lift them out of that false serenity.
~ Frank Herbert
watching her crawl through the sphincter
~ Frank Herbert