Quotes About Observation

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

In 1870 all signs indicated that the outcome would be otherwise. The French military attaché in Berlin had recently made a chilling observation: "Prussia is not a country which has an army. Prussia is an army which has a country."11

A few languid clouds moved inland over our heads. A little high plane was gamboling among them like a terrier in a henyard.

You notice things." "A sexburger like her I notice." The tip of his tongue protruded between his teeth, which were a good grade of plastic.

He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.

At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.

He was silent for a minute. His gaze moved past me and grew distant as if he was watching his daughter slip away over a receding horizon. I had no children, but I had given up envying people who had.

She spoke with a kind of wilted gallantry. I looked at her. She'd leaned her head against the cracked leather seat, and closed her eyes. Without their light and depth in her face, she looked about thirteen. I caught myself up short, recognizing a feeling I'd had before. It started out as paternal sympathy but rapidly degenerated, if I let it. And Mildred had a husband.

She looked up at the sun as if it were spying on her.

Her eyes, dark brown and experienced, carried a little luggage underneath.

I've noticed that . . ." and ends with the words "What's up?

Strategy #6: Making a discrepant observation. This is where you're making an observation that differs from information that the child has already provided in the Empathy step.

Greg is looking at me; he thinks I don't know it. I've been chopping onions at the kitchen counter for almost five minutes, and I can see his reflection – inside out, convex and stretched – in the chrome kettle we got as a wedding present. He's sitting at the kitchen table, checking me out.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

De lo que no ocurre, no se aprende nada.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

The mere exposure to masterworks does not suffice. Too many persons visit museums and collect picture books without ever gaining access to art. The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened. This is best accomplished by handling pencils, brushes, chisels and perhaps cameras.

and I'm sure I saw something like a television receptor on one end of the bench--remember that affair like a big lens set in a square box?

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.