Quotes About Observation

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Las cosas nunca son como a primera vista las figuramos, y así ocurre que cuando empezamos a verlas de cerca, cuando empezamos a trabajar sobre ellas, nos presentan tan raros y hasta tan desconocidos aspectos; tal pasa con las caras que nos imaginamos, con los pueblos que vamos a conocer, que nos los hacemos de tal o de cual forma en la cabeza, para olvidarlos repentinamente ante la vista de lo verdadero.

For news of the heart, watch the face.

For news of a mother's heart, watch her child's face.

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox

She has, however, noticed one important difference between crows and us: their families are generally more peaceful than ours sometimes are. No matter what the provocation, family members usually work out their differences without violence or any other signs of overt aggression.

Fueron exactamente diecinueve arañazos y doce dentelladas. ¿Que cómo lo sé? Feliz pregunta, lector sagaz, al filo de abandonarte de nuevo en los tiempos modernos, después de este paréntesis retrospectivo. Lo sé porque fui yo. Yo fui quien la atacó. Dicho esto, regreso a mi aparente silencio. Te estaré observando.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

learn from each and every horse you ride. Every horse has something to teach you, and sometimes you don't realise what that lesson is until years later!' Blueberry enjoyed his lessons in the school and hearing what Carl had to say but, at first, he didn't really understand that he was actually learning.

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

There are so many indications that one does not know what one sees. Is it the trees or is it the woods?

In my work I don't have that luxury. The stakes of some predictions require that I intimately recognize and accept what I observe in others no matter who they are, no matter what they have done, no matter what they might do, no matter where it takes me in myself. There may be a time in your life when you too won't have the luxury of saying you don't recognize someone's sinister intent. Your survival may depend on your recognizing it.

I have seen these pieces so often that I may recognize them sooner than some people, but my main job is just to get them on the table.

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter. When approached by a stranger while walking on some city street at night, no matter how engaging he might be, you must never lose sight of the context: He is a stranger who approached you. A good exercise is to occasionally remind yourself of where you are and what your relationship is to the people around you.

Paul Eckman says, "The face tells us subtleties in feelings that only a poet can put into words.

The face tells us subtleties in feelings that only a poet can put into words.

Context is the necessary link that gives meaning to everything we observe.

Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

A cloudspotter should hold up three fingers with an extended arm. If the individual elements of the layer are wider than all three fingers, the cloud is probably of the lower Stratocumulus genus. If they are smaller than the width of one finger, then it is more likely to be a high layer of cloudlets, called a Cirrocumulus. It is most likely to be an Altocumulus layer when the size of the cloudlets is somewhere between the two – smaller than three fingers and larger than one.

Cea mai important? ?tire a zilei de azi a fost aceea c? a r?s?rit soarele. Dar niciun gazetar nu a consemnat-o.

They were unabashed voyeurs looking at him; and Talese looked back.