Quotes About Observation

We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" twisted logic, but okay.

Have you ever wondered what a witness is? It's someone who has died, who lives in heaven and watches over the lives of those she loved. That's what I do. I watch you. I cheer you on. I hurt when you hurt.

Men! She would never understand them, but she would probably always enjoy looking at them.

telemetry is what enables us to assemble our best understanding of reality and detect when our understanding of reality is incorrect.

Trust Wes to say what people are thinking but are too smart to actually say aloud.

but as they say, you always have to watch out for the quiet ones. I take a quick shower. I run into the kitchen and grab a couple of sticks of the string cheese our son loves to eat. I take these

The number of eons since that buddha passed into extinction until now still vastly exceeds that number by innumerable, unlimited hundreds of thousands of billions of eons. Yet by the power of the Tathagata's insight, I observe that distant time as if it were today.

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

Irene spread out her skirts and turned to watch the room, a smile pinned to her face. 'No, nothing going on here, absolutely normal. My friend here likes to stare into locks and wiggle bits of metal round in them; he does it every day and twice on Sundays...

Aubrey - "Apparently she wears a black leather catsuit and a golden mask." Irene - "Any details on the mask?" Aubrey - "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather catsuit.

Sympathy would imply I might even try to help them. Pity is much safer. It can be delivered from on high without getting involved. I pity them.

My face turns red just seeing her. She's a looker. If Pete were here, he'd whistle.

Sure. I've been to hundreds of morgues. Thousands of them, in fact.

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

You see what you want to see

the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

He had a glass eye.

In writing I was often aware that the same observation could fit neatly into different ideological moulds and that a train window is both mirror and window.

That "feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres."

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.

MARIE As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another. WOYZECK I saw him. MARIE You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.