Quotes About Observation

zag jij misschien dat ik naar jou, dat ik je zag en dat ik zag hoe jij naar mij te kijken zoals ik naar jou en dat ik hoe dat heet zo steels, zo en passant en ook zo zijdelings - dat ik je net zo lang bekeek tot ik naar je staarde en dat ik staren bleef. Ik zag je toen en ik wist in te zien dat in mijn leven zoveel is gezien zonder dat ik het ooit eerder zag: dat kijken zoveel liefs vermag.

Vaak heb je toeschouwers van elders nodig om de schoonheid die ons dagelijks omringt te benadrukken: onszelf valt die 'tere, zilvergrijze toon' vaak niet eens (meer) op, omdat we hem als vanzelfsprekend beschouwen, citaat uit 'Hollands licht

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don't know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.

The order that is most real is the order that is most unchanging—and that is not necessarily the order that is most easily seen. The leaf, when perceived, might blind the observer to the tree. The tree can blind him to the forest. And some things that are most real (such as the ever-present dominance hierarchy) cannot be "seen" at all.

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now. Take a walk down any busy urban street. Keep your eyes open and pay attention. You will see people who are there, now. These are the people to whom you instinctively give a wide berth. These are the people who are immediately angered if you direct your gaze toward them, although sometimes they will instead turn away in shame.

It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.

Skinner observed the animals he was training to perform such acts with exceptional care. Any actions that approximated what he was aiming at were immediately followed by a reward of just the right size: not small enough to be inconsequential, and not so large that it devalued future rewards. Such an approach can be used with children, and works very well.

What you hear in the forest but cannot see might be a tiger. It might even be a conspiracy of tigers, each hungrier and more vicious than the other, led by a crocodile. But it might not be, too. If you turn and look, perhaps you'll see that it's just a squirrel.

Materialist social science implied that we could divide the world into facts (which all could observe, and were objective and "real") and values (which were subjective and personal). Then we could first agree on the facts, and, maybe, one day, develop a scientific code of ethics (which has yet to arrive).

People exchange information about how to act in many ways. They observe each other and imitate what they see. When they imitate, they use their bodies to represent the bodies of others. But this imitation is not mindless, automatized mimicry. It is instead the ability to identify regularities or patterns in the behavior of other people, and then to imitate those patterns.

Between Jeans and Pearson comes a notice from one John Butler Burke, who believed he had observed spontaneous generation of microscopic life in a vat of beef bouillon by exposure to the recently discovered element radium.

Tot allò. L'Eduard Calvo va adonar-se que era un eufemisme estrany.

La vida se les caía encima y ellos miraban todo con ojos de no entender por qué.

Professor olhou o peito de Boa-Vida. Estava todo picado da varíola. Mas no lugar do coração Professor viu uma estrela. Uma estrela no lugar do coração.

Quincas Berro Dágua, divertidíssimo, tentava passar rasteiras no cabo e no negro, estendia a língua para os transeuntes, enfiou a cabeça por uma porta para espiar, malicioso, um casal de namorados, pretendia, a cada passo, estirar-se na rua.

Ouvi dizer que nele é tudo grande, é um pé-de-mesa… — quem lhe dissera? Ninguém: ela batia o olho e pronto, ficava a par das proporções, resultado de prática constante e efetiva.

El hecho de que no se comprenda o se explique una cosa no termina con ella. Nada sé de las estrellas, pero las veo en el cielo, son la belleza de la noche.

Nas ruas em torno sobravam as mexeriqueiras velhas e jovens, pois para exercer tal ofício não se exige documento de idade. Dona Dinorá era a primeira dessas xeretas; em sua atividade tamanhos sucessos obteve a ponto de ser-lhe atribuída fama de vidente.

Moça de olho baixo é descarada esperando ocasião…

Observo de cerca la mueca concentrada del final: parece como si todavía estuviera soñando. ¿Con qué soñabas, viejo soldado?

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Ese árbol que ves allí —me dijo, señalando un eucalipto— es un cedro.

Los habitantes de Cuévano suelen mirar a su alrededor y después concluir: —Modestia aparte, somos la Atenas de por aquí.