Quotes About Observation

Her dad said, "Why didn't you wake me up and tell me?" Gracie looked over, her eyes dead. "I wasn't sure whose tent you were in." "Meow," Danielle whispered. Her dad turned red and looked quickly away. Gracie felt both good and ashamed at the same time. She expected a glare from Rachel, but the woman eyed her stoically. As if assessing her for later.

not actually shades of green. They had discussed the fact

JACK HEARD A HEAVY SPLASH and he turned around in his seat again.

Dakota shrugged. "I don't know what the hell is going on, but something is. You look ahead of us at all those people on horses in this setting, and you think, what a perfect thing. But what you don't know is what's going on in everyone's head, and what they might be thinking about everyone else. "That," she said, "is the reason I prefer horses.

He thought back on the accidental meeting he'd witnessed between these two yesterday and realized this wasn't the beginning.

The best camera is already always with you, because the best, sensor is your brain and the best lens is your eyes.

Willie saw that the barn had been swept clean. The spiderwebs had been cleaned from the windows. Even the mammoth one between the post and the overhead beam was gone. Marla didn't like spiderwebs any better than she liked him, Willie decided.

If Willie hadn't known the man working on the doghouse in the garage must be his father, he might not have recognized him. Dad's nose was red from the cold, and he was wearing a grease-streaked red-and-black-checked lumberman's jacket and a red flannel hat with floppy earflaps. He looked a lot more dignified in a business suit and tie, Willie thought.

Sempre posso parar, olhar além da janela. Mas do interior do trem, nunca é fixa a paisagem.

Já reparaste como o mundo parece feito de pontas e arestas? Já chamei tua atenção para a escassez de contornos mansos nas coisas? Tudo é duro e fere.

Sobrevivo a cada manhã quando, cruzando as portas e corredores que me conduzem às ruas intermináveis, imagino sempre que sou invisível para cada um dos que passam.

Here's a case where someone successfully followed their passion," they say, "therefore 'follow your passion' must be good advice." This is faulty logic. Observing a few instances of a strategy working does not make it universally effective.

your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to,

great sport, during their few idle hours, of sitting in the house's green-shuttered windows and watching the doings at headquarters through opera glasses, then offering commentary to passing police officials.

The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it—for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

Our oldest grandchild has precisely Alice's coloring, which may be one reason I sometimes have trouble taking my eyes off her.

For instance, here is a puzzle that many minds have pondered: If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it,does it still make a sound?

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

To really understand nature, we have to do more than glance, and we have to think beyond our knee-jerk reaction that insists since we make things with intent, nature must also be made with intent. If we want to understand better than a child, we have to look harder, and think deeper.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.