Quotes About Observation

The house. It watches every move you make.

All I can say is good luck and I'm going to be in the front row, watching you crash and burn. Because I'm a good friend like that.

Like the saying goes: the dead look the way they eat! And you ought to see that woman's husband

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Sometimes, on particularly good takes, I'm so moved that I stop "doing" the scene and just watch in awe at the miracle of good acting. As I said earlier, that's life up there. When it flows like that, that's when I say "Print.

Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.

A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields (Memory).

Therefore, let us not undervalue small signs; perhaps by means of them we will succeed in getting on the track of greater things.

La vida sexual actual de los neuróticos obsesivos puede parecer muchas veces, a un observador superficial, absolutamente normal, pues ofrece frecuentemente menos factores patógenos y menos anormalidades que la de nuestro paciente.

Colui che ha occhi per vedere e orecchi per sentire deve convincersi che nessun mortale sa mantenere un segreto: se le sue labbra sono serrate parlerà con la punta delle dita, il suo tradirsi trasuderà da ogni poro.

In studying the phenomena which testify to the activity of the destructive instinct, we are not confined to observations on pathological material. Numerous facts of normal mental life call for an explanation of this kind, and the sharper our eye grows, the more copiously they strike us.

Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you see. Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.

Once, when we were walking together on a campus outside the city, a chipmunk zipped across our path and dove into a hole at the base of an oak tree. "Oh, look at that," she said. "Just like Walt Disney.

One learns least from people one lives with.

She remembered her late husband's precepts about the police. What they did not know, generally speaking, they did not need to know. Ignorance in the Police Force, he had always maintained, was a natural state, and who are we, he would ask with a disarming shrug of his shoulders, to interfere with nature?

Why was it, Mrs Pargeter mused, that the only people who said they were the last ones to spread gossip were always such arrant gossip-mongers?

Why is it that animals instantly recognize the human beings who find them most repellent, and immediately focus all their attention on those poor unfortunates?

True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The only people who are in a position to point out my errors are also those who are not at liberty to reveal them.

At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.

Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.

The world brings itself into being before my eyes in an everlasting present: I grow used to its different aspects so quickly that it does not seem to me to change.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

In the afternoons I would sit out on the balcony outside the dining-room; there, level with the tops of the trees that shaded the boulevard Raspail, I would watch the passers-by.