Quotes About Observation

I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

observar los puntos de contacto entre lo que es ella y lo que no es. Entre el interior y el exterior.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

I was in the ROTC program. I remember once I was walking through campus and my instructor grabs me, and he's a real big guy, and yells, "It's been six weeks since I've seen you in camouflage class!" I said, "I'm getting good."

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

La gente segura de sí misma sabe muy bien lo que busca en la vida. En cambio yo espero siempre que otros muevan los hilos de la trama donde participo como testigo o comparsa.

Iban a comerse el mundo y ahora se limitan a comentarlo, si es que lo comentan, circunscritos como están a los límites de su limitada capacidad de pensar.

Quand on voyage avec quelqu'un, me dit-il, on a toujours tendance à trouver ce qui nous entoure étrange, tandis que si on voyage seul, c'est toujours soi qui est étrange." (Le voyage vertical)

Hay cuervos, pero nadie ha oído sus graznidos.

el recuerdo de aquel día de su juventud en el que iba sin paraguas y, aun así, se dedicó a perder el tiempo mirando fijamente a la cara de los transeúntes a la caza de la esencia única de cada uno, y terminó muy mojado.

Non bisogna ragionare sulla natura per enunciati privi di riscontro oggettivo e formulazioni di principi teorici, ma in base a ciò che l'esperienza sensibile richiede.

Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I'm learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.

The Colonel's face cleared, 'My dear fellow, of course he should. One cannot write about that which one has never seen.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

A few people, however, can still see and hear in the old way. But most of the members of the human race have lost the capacity to he painters, poets or musicians, and are not left the option of seeing and hearing directly even if they can afford to; they must get it secondhand. The recovery of this ability is called here "awareness.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." Randy not only saw beauty in the smallest things, but also was captivated by their smallest details. He decided to spend the following summer in the high country. He wanted to put his life on his back, not unlike John Muir, and hike the crest of the Sierra without a schedule. Unhurried. Unhindered.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

In their natural habitats some of these species may be, like the golden-fronted bowerbird, easy to locate and observe but may nevertheless trick the biologist into treating them as "common" when they are really just "obvious," an important distinction.