Quotes About Observation

If there was an ethos at Squid Frames, it came from the elevation of craft. When a piece of wood was stained and finished particularly well, eyebrows were raised but little was said. The type of things that would score the most admiration were precisely the things that others would not recognize at all, because when the frames were well made, the eye would simply travel to the art.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

Can we learn a technique to make our own descriptions of people more incisive and complete?

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.

About this same time Abbe Beauchamp, vicar-general at Baghdad and correspondent of the Academy of Science, was making careful and accurate observations

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Though he be a fool, yet he keeps much company, and will tell all he sees or hears, and so a man may understand what the common talk of the town is.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

George Vines felvitt a tornya tetejébe, ahol az áruló Cooke feje van kit?zve, meg Harrisoné a Westminster Hall másik oldalán. Innen jól láttam ?ket, és a szép londoni panorámát is.

All you know I know: careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle; student riots; know that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because six months prices have risen outlandishly; how coffee tastes after you've held it in your mouth, cold, a whole minute.

When the smoke thins, I can look across at the other buildings. So many of the windows are broken. Maybe the maintenance men in Arthur's office have already started putting in new panes.

People probably do hear watches go tic-tok. But I'm sure my childhood clock went tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic…Why

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

A BMS hears hoofbeats outside his window, the first thing he thinks of is a zebra

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

We listened and looked sideways up!Fear at my heart, as at a cup,My lifeblood seemed to sip.

"Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see,The Devil knows how to row."

I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

The first skill to develop for sensing energy is the ability to pay attention. Learn how to observe others by being silent. You know what it is like to sit back and watch. Observe any area about which you want more information without judgment or having any opinions or preconceived ideas about it. As you think intently about something, you will begin to receive guidance, ideas, and new thoughts about the issue.