Quotes About Observation

While wedged in the middle of a transparent rubber ring at a Dubai water park, I couldn't help but notice that I appeared to have grown my own rubber ring around my midriff.

I grew up in Wandsworth and was constantly on public transport, as there wasn't much going on around there.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

You never know,' she (Souljah) said, 'that's why you gotta watch for a long time before you jump into bed with someone. It's not what they say that gives them away, it's what they do and how they do it. I watch closely. Most things are not what they seem to be in this life. Most people are not what they seem to be in this life. Most people find it extremely hard to tell the truth about themselves. Living has taught me that.

Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness may lag behind.

Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo.

If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

B]y observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether... [like] when [people] watch and study an eclipse of the sun; they really do sometimes injure their eyes, unless they study its reflection in water or some other medium.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

course of long observance

Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Poirot suspected Hugo Dockerill was one of the stupidest people he had ever met.

George looked doubtful, as he frequently did. English discretion, Poirot had observed, had an outward appearance that suggested doubt. Many of the politest English men and women he had met over the years looked as if they had been ordered to disbelieve everything that was said to them.

He was now firmly of the view that if you wanted to see clearly how one person's character diverged from that of another, the most efficient method was to place both in identical situations.

Pessoas demais ficam olhando e não fazem nada para ajudar pessoas com problemas.

Dom and I have often agreed that trees are like fish – we ought to know more than we do about the differences between the various types, but we've reached our forties and can still only identify weeping willows and salmon with any certainty.

I see enough. I saw you.

I relax my thoughts and absorb everything humming around me. The branches with their gray-green leaves. The birds stirring against the dawn.

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.