Quotes About Observation

It is a world to see.

All positive knowledge obtained . . . has resulted from the accurate observation of facts.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees-to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Darkhat Mongols in suits and brown trilbies stood watch

was only as he passed Diana's carriage that he slowed

I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.

The human eye doesn't look above its own height.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.

As a general rule, if you're holding down a job it's best to lie low and keep your mouth shut.

The implication of "good riddance"—that love would switch off, like an electric light, once you realized the object of your love was dumb, or cowardly, or had bad taste—was not strictly borne out by observation.

Like all the stories I wrote at that time, it was based on an unusual atmosphere that had impressed me in real life.

I sat across from Riley and Ivan sat next to me. Riley glanced at Ivan, who was vigorously cutting up a Salisbury steak: something Riley would never have eaten. Then Oak, Ezra, and Lucas turned up, managing to seem like at least five people. They kept sitting down and jumping up and going to get things and changing seats.

It seemed very remarkable that you could travel halfway around the world and still end up looking at some ducks.

Drama followed Chess around like a smell. Some people, Tate had learned, were like that, and it was for people like her to sit and watch the show.

He had a cute little gap in his teeth that I'd never noticed before.

Maybe some people, like art, were better appreciated at a distance.

The astute journalist had commented that Russians enjoy themselves without smiling, always taking their pleasure sadly.

That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much about human nature. And write about it in a way that still rings true, all these years later.' ". . . " 'That's Shakespeare's secret. . .

If Miss Valmont's education, treatment, and utter seclusion were most valuable for her, why should she, yet so young, and removed from the common misfortunes of life, why should she be unhappy. You, Sir, may not have perceived this effect of your system; for, although shut within the same boundary and resident under one roof, you seldom see her, and when you do see, you do not study her.