Quotes About Observation

important key to learning to draw is learning how to set up conditions that allow this mental shift that enables you to see and draw.

mealworms I enjoy.

Although I hadn't had my hamster ball for long, I loved rolling up and down the aisles of Room 26. You can learn a lot from studying the floor of a classroom. You can find out who is messy (Richie, Mandy) or who is twitchy (Seth, Art). You can even find out who is growing the fastest by seeing whose jeans are a little short (Garth, Sayeh).

I was admiring the view from my second story window when the screaming started.

some of them sent curious glances her way. She imagined they didn't get many black patrons here…

He was succeeded by a gentleman who gazed at the Brussels sprouts and asked if the funny little knobs on the stalks were a form of disease. I told him yes. Eczema.

We have already noticed two of Our Rose's most irritating affectations - her trick of calling inanimate objects 'he' or 'she,' and the way in which she says 'we' when she means 'you.' To these must now be added a third - her habit of looking rapturously into space and saying 'I see' this or that when, in fact, there is nothing there for her to see at all.

Not noticing requires energy.

As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the 'fog' of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.

Consider this- many times people on the other side of the fence are admiring how green your grass is!

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

If you're customer-focused, you're always waking up wondering, how can we make that customer say, wow? We want to impress our customers -- we want them to say, wow. That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.

The teaching is concerned with the arising and cessation of suffering, which can be observed in one's own experience. It does not set up even the Buddha as an unimpeachable authority but invites us to examine him to determine whether he fully deserves our trust and confidence.

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

Önce yatanlar?n aras?nda dola?t?, sonra d?? avluya ç?k?p nöbet tutanlara bakt? bu adam. Genç say?l?r daha; saç? sakal? a?armam??, omuzlar? çökmemi?, belini dik tutuyor. Ama uyuyamad???na da bak?l?rsa, gençlikten epey uzakla?m?? olmal?.

It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.

Why is it that you can only watch a great movie once or twice, rarely more than that, but you can watch the moon come up night after night for a hundred years and it's always as picturesque as the first time you ever experienced it?

So no matter how much you earn, you'll have little left over at the end of the day. You won't be the first to observe this phenomenon. You won't be the last, either. But

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.)

Clever dicks will notice that the figure changes as the boat gets deeper or lighter because the area of the waterplane changes. You can go on enjoying arithmetic all night like this and never go sailing at all.

Life is a free circus. All you have to do is pay attention.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

The gas station attendant looks at the car and says, "You got a flat tire." I said, "No, the other three just swelled up."