Quotes About Observation

See something once—really see it—and it never looks the same again.

Research supports his observation: It's not goal attainment, but the process of striving after goals—that is, growth—that brings happiness.

the "Hawthorne effect," in which people being studied improve their performance, simply because of the extra attention they're getting. In

We manage what we monitor.

Six mirrors keep staring at one another (Monday rue Christine)

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

There is a part of everything that remains unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire or that tree until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire.

but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.

This is indeed a funny country. Yesterday, for example, we were in a cafe which is one of the best in Cairo, and there were, at the same time as ourselves, inside, a donkey shitting, and a gentleman who was pissing in a corner. No one finds that odd; no one says anything.

Badaud. Tous les Parisiens sont des badauds quoique sur dix habitants de Paris il y ait neuf provinciaux. À Paris on ne travaille pas.

La finestra, a províncies, substitueix els teatres i el passeig.

Criticism must be like natural history, with absence of moralism

Emma était accoudée à sa fenêtre (elle s'y mettait souvent : la fenêtre, en province, remplace les théâtres et la promenade)

No tempo da sra. Dubuc, a velha senhora se sentia ainda como a preferida; mas, agora, o amor de Charles por Emma lhe parecia uma deserção de sua ternura, uma invasão do que lhe pertencia; e ela observava a felicidade do filho com um silêncio triste, como alguém arruinado olha, através da vidraça , pessoas à mesa em sua antiga casa.

They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.

Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la plus grande force de la nature, qui renverse les hommes, abat les édifices, déracine les arbres, soulève la mer en montagnes d'eau, détruit les falaises, et jette aux brisants les grands navires, le vent qui tue, qui siffle, qui gémit, qui mugit, – l'avez-vous vu, et pouvez-vous le voir ? Il existe, pourtant.

Charming, charming,' the lawyer said at intervals.

He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact.

Tout ce qui nous entoure, tout ce que nous voyons sans le regarder, tout ce que nous frôlons sans le connaître, tout ce que nous touchons sans le palper, tout ce que nous rencontrons sans le distinguer, a sur nous, sur nos organes et, par eux, sur nos idées, sur notre cÅ"ur lui-même, des effets rapides, surprenants et inexplicables.

Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny . . ." —Isaac Asimov