Quotes About Observation

Tenía la mirada vacía de alguien que siempre se encontraba apartado del mundo que lo rodeaba. A veces me preguntaba si era un mecanismo de defensa, si la única manera de sobrellevar esa vida era fingir que no era a él a quien le ocurría todo eso.

I didn't tell her about the days when it felt like a peculiar form of torture to work somewhere where I was forced to watch each plane taxi on the runway, gather its energy like a great bird, then launch itself into the sky.

His wife, rather irritatingly, raised an eyebrow, as if she could no longer be bothered to make an adequate response to his observations.

Perhaps Margery detected some of these mental gymnastics,

but we men are so thumpingly incapable of seeing what is before us. It

watched the other people in the pub, wondering about their lives. Each of them would have huge events in their own families—babies loved and lost, dark secrets, great joys and tragedies.

Here's the thing about middle-class people. They pretend not to look, but they do. They're too polite to actually stare. Instead, they do this weird thing of catching sight of Will in their field of vision and then determinedly not looking at him. Until he's gone past, at which point their gaze flickers toward him, even while they remain in conversation with someone else. They won't talk about him, though. Because that would be rude. As

You know, you don't dress like someone from round here. I quite look forward to seeing what insane combination you're going to turn up in next.

I had a drink, and then another. I listened to their talk of mileage, of the skinned knees and the hypothermic swimming bouts. I tuned out, and watched the other people in the pub, wondering about their lives. Each of them would have huge events in their own families - babies loved and lost, dark secrets, great joy and tragedies. If they could put it into perspective, if they could just enjoy a sunny evening in a pub garden, then surely I should too.

And she's ancient. How old must she be? Twenty-seven? Twenty-eight?

I simply got used to seeing people I didn't recognize wandering around.

knew from Monsieur Lefèvre's face

Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them. It

The answer pinged back within seconds. I smiled. How did girls that age type so quickly when they did everything else so slowly?

I had passed this house a million times in my life without ever actually properly seeing it.

I didn't like the thought of being watched all the time.

Pero Anthony O'Hare es una criatura distinta. Vuelve a limpiar la ventanilla y ve a Jennifer

The only light came from the windows of those houses she passed that had open curtains, revealing little tableaux of family life: the young couple prostrate on a sofa in front of the television, their small child playing on the floor; the solitary old lady reading the paper; the table set for tea, while an unwatched television cast an aurora borealis of moving shadows in the corner.

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Hidden in the physical work space, in the user's words, and in the tools they use are the beautiful gems of knowledge that can create revolutionary, breakthrough products or simply fix existing, broken products. People do strange things - unexpected things - and being there to witness and record these minute and quick moments of humanity is simply invaluable

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.