Quotes About Observation

Teachers should take advantage of every opportunity to observe and learn from other teachers. Because the perfect teacher does not exist, every teacher has something to learn and improve in their teaching. An essential part of this learning is watching other teachers teach.

Retail store surveillance systems register our presence, even if we are doing nothing but browsing and even if we pay for everything in cash.

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

Visit any public school toilet and look at the graffiti. You'll see that when children are interested, they can learn to spell quite complicated words.

perché solo quando ti siedi, ti fermi e osservi può nascere la creatività»,

For Schaeffer rationality concerned the validity of thought, while rationalism concerned someone beginning with himself and his reason plus what he observes, without information from any other source, and coming to final answers in regard to truth, ethics, and reality.

Scientists need to be observed and criticized more than any other members of society. I say this not just because of the horrors that might emerge from their laboratories, but also because of the necessity for making them as morally and philosophically answerable as the rest of us.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit? A: Peanut shells on the floor.

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

You write what you know because -- like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.

Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.

My son, when thou sayest: All women are liars, it is easy to thee. But he who perceiveth when they are lying, I say unto thee, he is a man of understanding.

In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.

Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw?

And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I'm a crow, especially when I stand a'top of this pine tree here. Caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! Ain't I a crow? And where's the scare-crow? There he stands; two bones stuck into a pair of old trowsers, and two more poked into the sleeves of an old jacket.

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.