Quotes About Observation

Spending so much time stuffing everything that lent itself to filling in any way or form, I am not surprised that the Jerusalemites never had time to raise their heads or look out of their windows to see what their neighbours were up to.

There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.

He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make.

All you have to do is wait until she's asleep

He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This

He'd set an eight-quart pan on the stove and the water had just reached a rolling boil. On the bottom of the pan there was a crumpled section of foil. I watched

Fifty years ago noted animal researcher Harry Harlow, in an address to the American Psychological Association, observed, "As far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission…The little we write about it has been better written by poets and novelists.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see…we listen, but never hear…we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity, and laughter to come alive. —Erma Bombeck

Emotion, we've discovered, is a sharp, smart force that organizes and elevates our lives. It is what transforms existence into experience. "I do not literally paint that table but the emotion it produces upon me," observed Matisse.

Change starts with seeing the pattern, with focusing on the game rather than the ball.

her. "How do you always know that stuff?" she asked. "Are you kidding? Everyone knows that stuff." He went back to the kitchen to start cleaning up. Meri crossed to the lilies. Bending over them

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That's what I've been trying to do.

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair. My

I'll take nine steps and look up. Whatever my eyes light on, that's my sign. I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. I couldn't decide what part of the scene I represented: the plants about to be rescued from the bugs or the bugs about to be murdered by the spray. There was an off chance I was really the airplane zipping over the earth creating rescue and doom everywhere I went.

We become what we pay attention to

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.

Flexibility in our lives means having a fundamental ability to relate to any new environment and excel in it. Instead of fighting it, you greet it with open arms and observe it; instead of criticizing it, you caress it and understand it; instead of ignoring it, you make it yours and be one with it.

Conservare la disciplina e la calma, attendere i primi segnali di disordine e chiasso nell'esercito nemico: in questo consiste l'arte dell'autocontrollo.