Quotes About Observation

I was born with eyes that can never close...

We are all here to serve each other. At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.

From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

It was so obvious that I wondered I had not seen it before, but of course we do not often look at the shadows of things, only the things themselves.

Clouds aren't as pretty as they used to be. That's a known fact.

your eyes will be drawn to one small odd thing among all the thousands of others—the thing that calls to you, and suddenly, out of everything else your eyes are taking in and disregarding, they'll focus on this one spot where something doesn't make sense, or maybe it spells danger, or it just reminds you of a time and place different from this one. And you can't look away.

Even as a kid, I always had the ability to see down the line to where trouble lay, or truth. George used to complain that I expected the worst out of life, but it wasn't that. I simply recognized that just because the sun was shining one day didn't mean it would the next. Frost would come, and so would snow. The fact of rain did not rule out the possibility of drought. You could call it pessimism. I based my attitudes on what I saw in the world around me. Not what I dreamed up.

We take sight for granted and forget to look

Extraer la belleza del mundo, incluso aunque esté oculta a simple vista.

que éste era un país donde un hombre manda la parada por el hecho de venir del norte; que para la mitad de sus huéspedes, pomposos y arribistas, estar en el hotel era de alguna manera estar en el extranjero. Así era: una habitación en el hotel de la familia Guterman era, para la mayoría de aquellos criollos pretenciosos, la única oportunidad de ver el mundo, el único papel de importancia que podían tener en su minúscula obrita de teatro.

y se qudó un instante mirando esos ojos grices que no la miraban, o bien que miraban todo con la misma desatención alarmada

Sólo hay algo en la naturaleza remotamente parecido a esa mirada, y son los ojos de los tiburones blancos. Miran sin ver, de una forma única y aterradora.

Etchenike fue observado con desdén y detenimiento, es decir con atención desatenta o sea como un animal raro pero repulsivo.

And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.

How odd that we always exclaim over children growing, as if in the ordinary run of things they shrink

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

Counterfactual reasoning, which deals with what-ifs, might strike some readers as unscientific. Indeed, empirical observation can never confirm or refute the answers to such questions.

invoked only if it is absolutely needed for explaining some observed or derived phenomenon, e.g., finding your home burglarized and your alarm system silent.

That baby is small,' observed the bald guy, who sat to the right of Jamie. He nodded, thinking, small but lethal.

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

sight was so

to practice is to pay attention to your whole life: your thoughts, your bodily sensations, and your speech and other actions.

To practice yoga in the deepest sense is to commit to developing awareness by observing our lives: our thoughts, our words, and our actions. There

People missed things. People didn't notice; people didn't care. People's own misperceptions made black into white, made grey into whatever they wanted it to be.