Quotes About Observation

Observó a los presentes en la sala y pensó que a veces el silencio se puede reflejar en los ojos de las personas.

Es difícil reconocer una cara conocida entre un grupo de desconocidos cuando no se espera

Un buen psicoterapeuta es como un jugador de póquer con las apuestas altas —pensó—. Evita dar pistas a los demás jugadores para poder tirarse un farol y quedarse con lo que hay en el centro de la mesa.»

En la vida real era muy distinto. Todo el mundo es sospechoso. Todo el mundo está absorto.

The woman in front of him seemed like the work of an artist who had taken the few lines that sketched out a teenager and added color and shape to create a full portrait.

I defy any man to be a pessimist on the subject of American character after a season or two on the lecture platform; provided of course that he is a reasonably sympathetic man, and is so constituted in matters social that he is what the politicians call a "good mixer."

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

The superior confidence which people repose in the tall man is well merited. Being tall, he is more visible than other men and being more visible, he is much more closely watched. In consequence, his behavior is far better than that of smaller men.

COINCIDENCE You werent paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

volander n. the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window, able to catch a glimpse of far-flung places you'd never see in person, free to let your mind wander, trying to imagine what they must feel like down on the ground—the closest you'll ever get to an objective point of view.

Psychology looks at people from the inside. Economics looks at them from the outside.

You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.

Troy glanced at the boys, wondering how much they heard and how much they understood. Eight cherubic faces, and sixteen hard, ruthless eyes looked back at him.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

The space in which one looks, in which one examines is philosophically very different from the space in which one sees

It was the other man Hardy had noticed in the gallery. Reasonably good-looking, somewhat burly even in his tailored suit, Lightner sported a well-trimmed red beard under a head of dark brown hair. It was a striking combination that Hardy thought might come out of a bottle.

The facts have to be determined by empirical evidence, and our thinking has then to conform to the facts, not the facts to our thinking

This is medieval speculation on the origin of paganism, and it ascribes to pagans a kind of natural religion, one based on unenlightened observation of the environment.

Burton began that evening gracious, charming, and sober. Liv and I watched in fascination and horror, exchanging eye-rolling glances, as too much drink gradually turned that splendid man into a boorish, self-loathing sot.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.

Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind.