Quotes About Observation

The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you.

When the infamous Shotts riot of '93 kicked off, Dingus was in the hall but he never started it or took any part in it whatsoever, he just sat in one of his friend's cell, smoking hash, waiting for the riot to end. Dingus had seen all the crazy shit before.

Some people say you should watch a man's feet to see if he's ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes!

The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics.

reality just seems to come in certain undeniable chunks.

What one thinks of any region, while traveling through, is the result of at least three things: what one knows, what one imagines, and how one is disposed [Barry Lopez].

Stefansson was once asked by an Eskimo to whom he was showing a pair of binoculars for the first time whether he could 'see into tomorrow' with them. . . . What the Inuk probably meant was, Are those things powerful enough to see something that will not reach you for another day. . . . which you yourself will not reach for another day [Barry Lopez]?

How easy and delightful life might be if we could do this, if when we had attained the position we wished we might rest on our oars and watch the ripples on the stream of life.

It is as easy to criticize other countries than ours as it is to find fault with other people than ourselves and both usually come from a lack of understanding. If we are looking for defects we are nearly certain to find them, while if we observe others with the purpose of learning and adapting for ourselves what is good in their lives and ways we gain much. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Farm Home; July 20, 1920 /

Sometimes something happens even when nothing happens. Other times nothing happening is exactly what it sound like. I have a friend in the mental-health field who would tell me that at times it can be difficult to tell those two things apart.

Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.

Buda disse "Se sua boca estiver aberta, você não está aprendendo", e Calvin Coolidge disse, "Ninguém jamais foi despedido por escutar demais".

You keep referring to this second shark as a female," Andre Dupont interrupted. "How do you know for sure?"' "Because I saw her. She passed over my sub when I was in the trench. She's much larger than this first shark… and she's pregnant." Conversations broke out across the conference table. Mac looked at Jonas. "How the hell do you know she's pregnant? You do a gynecological exam down there?

The satellites were equipped with synthetic aperture radar and other sophisticated instruments designed to see through cloud cover, ocean, ice, and even soil. The Onyx satellite had

Many eyes are watching you, and many hearts are wary of your presence

Looking at this town with an honest eye was like biting into candy with a mouthful of cavities.

Even the conspirators' mistakes fed into the desired result. The term 'rifle among Oswald's possessions' passed into the evidence and Report despite the fact that it was an order, not an evidentiary observation.

Television is light filled with someone else's anxiety.

took Lorenzo a while to realize what she was doing. Daniela was narrowing the list of suspects by process of elimination! Each time a kid went into the fountain and didn't transform into a sea monster, they knew it wasn't Luca. "Not our kid," Lorenzo said as another one went in. "Not our kid…

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.

I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them.

I looked out my window onto the street, the same street, the same buildings I always see, the windows that stare back at my own; and it was different. The moment was a different moment, of a different now. What I saw from my window was the other Twentieth Century rolling on by my own, like the other branch of a river that's been forked by an island long and narrow and knifelike: the same river but flowing by different shorelines and banks.

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.