Quotes About Observation

As Eisman had risen, Danny had sunk in his chair, instinctively. There is always the possibility of embarrassment, Danny said. But it's like watching a car crash. You can't not watch.

That guy might look like Arnold but it can't possibly be Arnold because Arnold would never be out alone on a bike at seven in the morning, trying to commit suicide.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

recalls Avishai Margalit. "You discussed people. It was a constant thing, a constant puzzle: What makes others tick? It comes from the shtetl. Jews were petty merchants. They had to assess others, all the time. Who is dangerous? Who is not dangerous? Who will repay the debt, who won't repay the debt? People were basically dependent on their psychological judgment.

You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry.

to find the phenomenon and then explain it in a way that applies to other situations

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

As I believe I observed earlier,' said the albino prince to the still-cowed Gaynor, 'the most powerful of beings are not necessarily the most intelligent, nor, indeed, sane, nor well-mannered. The more one knows of the gods, the more one learns this fundamental lesson…

Here there are no folds in the fields, only wide open plains, scarcely a hill in sight. And instead of church towers they have spires that thrust themselves skywards like a child putting his hand up in class, longing to be noticed. But God, if there is one, notices nothing here. He has long since abandoned this place and all of us who live in it.

She was looking out of the window

Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.

when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

People are not who or where we think they are. And there is someone who watches from an unknown location

He can think now only of objects. Something alive, just one small grey bird on a branch, will break his heart.

Birds prefer trees with dead branches,' said Caravaggio. 'They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction.

as if Morphy had invented a great philosophical profundity on his way to the opera. That happens, of course, when you are not looking at yourself too carefully.

KuÅŸlar ölü dallara konmay? tercih eder, biliyor muzun? Çevrelerini daha iyi görebilirler öyle. Ä°stedikleri yöne uçarlar.

KuÅŸlar ölü dallara konmay? tercih eder, biliyor musun? Çevrelerini daha iyi görebilirler öyle. Ä°stedikleri yöne uçarlar.

sketches of Saussure's cyanometer, which distinguished the various blues in the sky.

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, 'Faya!' That was a good day.

Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise.

KuÅŸlar ölü dallara konmay? tercih eder, biliyor musun? Çevrelerini daha iyi görsünler diye. Ä°stedikleri yöne uçarlar.

The sun comes every day. Save the string. I put it in lines across the room. I watched him creep his body though the grilled windows. When the sun touches the first string wham it is 10 o'clock. It is 2 o'clock when he touches the second. When the shadow of the first string is under the second string it is 4 o'clock. When it reaches the door it will soon be dark.