Quotes About Observation

Why are children so much smarter than adults?

The deceptive thing about the little figure that is not there is that its absence so often goes unnoticed. That, of course, is the secret of its success.

Watch your pets eyes they can see the ghosts all around you.

There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.

There are four rules for shadowing: Keep behind your subject as much as possible; never try to hide from him; act in a natural manner no matter what happens; and never meet his eye.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language

Fooey! The porchlight is burnt out, and I can't see whether it's dark outside or not.

Brota soupira et décida de ne pas se mêler de cette affaire. Quand les hommes se comportent comme des enfants, les femmes doivent se tenir à l'écart. —

Strange how what one saw depended on how one looked.

It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Every truly successful duck raiser I have observed over the years has had the ability to step out of a predator mentality and has learned how to look at the world from a duck's perspective.

And then things happened quickly. Too quickly, on so many wildly differing scales, for any single observer ever to fully comprehend them. And not necessarily in the entirely correct order, besides. . . In

All of which is to the purpose that I have travelled more than most, by means that provoke looks of askance at the merest telling of them,

In more than one case I saw a glockenspiel fully half the length again of the bandsman carrying it – although the particular offensive capabilities of such an instrument were at that time well nigh impossible to guess. For

cam kept watching the woman.Then she whispered to Eric "that woman is hiding something.Shes wearing dark glasses and it isnt sunny out.Shes wearing a raincoat and its not raining.Theres sonthing in that bagthat shouldnt be there.Lets follow her .

and I need a green shirt," the man said into the telephone. "But not grass-green. It should be more like a traffic-light green ..." Eric came into the store. "I saw the milk truck. It rode right past me. The Milkman

the picture, how many people are chasing the girl? 2. What is the girl carrying? 3. Does the girl have both her feet on the ground? 4. What are the man and woman holding? 5. Is the girl wearing socks? 6. Is the girl wearing polka-dotted shorts?

The secret is this: monkey mind feeds in darkness, it shrinks under the light of observation.

The observers — members of Microsoft's User Research Group — diligently note each click, key press, and hesitation, hoping they'll learn the answer to the industry's big secret: why do so many people find computers difficult to use?

America sure was a funny place to look at when you got far enough away,

It can be difficult to accept the fact that a lot of birds have to be identified as "possible" or "probable.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?

Or was it just the eyes of the watcher that gave character to the world?