Quotes About Observation

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze. "I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing...but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence

You may have a vast scholarship, fame or fortune. But, the bee can give you a lesson on how to be free from torment

Even when no one is seeing, God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness.

This is what is expected of a leader — better perception, clear observation and graceful expression.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

What we are looking for is what is looking.

I don't like days that end without answers. I'll just keep my eyes open and we'll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don't have time to laugh.

Now, understand. If we can put this over with Papa and the chief, we're going to watch you like a hawk!" "Four hawks!" said Sister.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

Does every pickup in Idaho come complete with a dog in the back?

Vergessen wir nicht, dass auch uns die Bakterien - von der anderen Seite des Mikroskops - betrachten.

W historii politycznej Polski nigdy nie gra?em jakiejkolwiek roli, nigdy nie by?em na scenie, ale cz?sto siedzia?em w pierwszym rz?dzie, obserwowa?em spektakl dok?adnie, a czasami udawa?o mi si? na chwil? zabrn?? za kulisy, zerkn?? na to lub owo, dojrze? szminkowanie i kostiumowanie.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

The human mind is so complex that many different theories can be constructed, all of which seem to be logical, coherent, and explain major facts of observation, yet at the same time are mutually incompatible or actually contradict each other.

It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB

Observation is a dying art.

Love, too, a leveler, a dying all its own, the parts left behind not to be replaced, a loss ongoing, and every day increased, like rising in the night, at 3:00 am, to watch the snow or the dead leaf fall, the rings around the streetlight in the rain, and then the rain, the red fist in the heart opening and closing almost without me. —Stanley Plumly, from "Variation on a Line from Elizabeth Bishop's 'Five Flights Up'," Poetry(June 2015)

I hover over myself Watching. Mind and body separated, Each in control As though there are two puppeteers Working the strings of my marionette self.

Is truth here In the ugly unseemliness? The graceless moments Before and after Eyes are watching? In the unballerina The unperformed?

I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine; watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school; count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over and I am only a little afraid of the night.