Quotes About Observation

As a result, we are born pattern-spotters, seeing faces in the clouds, ghosts in the shadows, and mythical beasts in the stars.

Mr Haywood is Ernie,' the Lamb told Robert. 'The one who thinks Anthea's pretty.

looking round him wildly. The boys were calm and said nothing.

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

like, "I happened to notice when I put these together that . 

your ears and put them over your mouth," Butcher says. "Learn to listen, see, smell, and absorb everything around you without speaking your thoughts first. If

their heads popping up prairie-dog style from their cubes.

Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect what I saw or felt.

Er zijn meer mannen gespaard door goed om zich heen te kijken dan door uitmuntende vechtkunst.

when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all.

When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.

In the words of Heisenberg, "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

You engage, and then you wait and see.

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply our notes of our observations. This view has been held, in one form or another, by many philosophers of high reputation from Plato onwards, and I shall use the language which is natural to a man who holds it.

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

I teach that when it rains the pavement gets wet.

Most of the contemporary beings acquire in their presence a very strange need to evoke the expression in others of the being-impulse 'astonishment' regarding themselves, or even simply to notice it on the faces of those around.

You saw her a hundred times, but not once did you look at her.