Quotes About Observation

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

I liked to watch the real salesmen-- the old-time travelers. A lot could be learned from those guys. Those fellas had plenty of charm. They used to say that sincerity sells-- and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

One way to figure out a great theory is to look at what's working in the real world and figure out what the various successes have in common. With

If you're able to look at what's happening in your world and say, "There's the pattern," or "Wow, that's interesting, I wonder why," then you're far more likely to respond productively than if your reaction is "How dare he!

Picasso hesitates for a moment and asks, "So what do you think reality looks like?" The man grabs his wallet and pulls out a picture of his wife. "Here, like this. It's my wife." Picasso takes the photograph, looks at it, and grins. "Really? She's very small. And flat, too.

128. Intentional Action Has a Few Simple Elements Determine who it's for. Learn what they believe, what they fear, and what they want. Be prepared to describe the change you seek to make. At least to yourself. Care enough to commit to making that change. Ship work that resonates with the people it's for. Once you know whom it's for and what it's for, watch and learn to determine whether your intervention succeeded. Repeat.

Observe him, for the love of mockery

Well said, old mole!

You can get the measure of a man by observing the way he treats his animals

Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.

SO MUCH (INSPIRED BY MR. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS) BY JACK So much depends upon a black kitten dotted with white beside a photo of my yellow dog

Words fall out of the sky like leaves, girl. Grab a couple and write 'em down.

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here & now.

look at the world with quiet eyes.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she reaches the safety of easier-tolive-with invention.

She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn't see in themselves.

I have touched upon how well compensated British bureaucrats in India were, but what made things worse was how imbalanced their salaries were when compared with their local counterparts. In the first decades of the twentieth century, J. T. Sunderland observed that the difference in salaries and emoluments was so great that 8,000 British officers earned £13,930,554, while 130,000 Indians in government service were collectively paid a total of £3,284,163.

I can see the color of the grass deepening, becoming impossibly green the way it does in early spring when you've almost stopped believing that things will ever grow again. Right now it looks like each individual blade has been painted, and I wonder who will notice these things when I'm gone.

See, you smart, James. You sit and watch everyone, and you know stuff without having to run your mouth. I'm always running my mouth, which gets my release took away and a bunch of knows in my head.

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.

Dear God in heaven." Nik and Ban turned away, but Alek stood. Transfixed. "My God, y'all. She's the worst goddamn dancer I've ever seen." "Turn away. It'll hurt your eyes. Turn away!