Quotes About Observation

as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees

the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

You're like a tipsy man as thinks everybody's had too much but himself.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes;

Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies, said Mrs. Poyser; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

Chiunque osservi con attenzione la convergenza furtiva dei destini umani, scorge una lenta preparazione di effetti che una vita esercita su un'altra, che ha l'effetto di una calcolata ironia sull'indifferenza o sullo sguardo gelido con cui guardiamo il nostro vicino non ancora conosciuto. Il Destino sta in attesa, sarcastico, tenendo i nostri dramatis personae stretti in pugno.

But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.

that she had two points of view from which she could observe the weakness of her fellow-beings, and reinforce her thankfulness for her own exceptional strength of mind.

the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

animadversion from that small pipe—that capillary vessel, the Rev.

it is art's duty to make us aware of realities which are not our own.

See the difference between the impression a man makes on you when you walk by his side in familiar talk, or look at him in his home, and the figure he makes when seen from a lofty historical level, or even in the eyes of a critical neighbour who thinks of him as an embodied system or opinion rather than as a man. Mr.

Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation?

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?