Quotes About Observation

Las ropas que llevaban no eran nada reveladoras, notó decepcionado, y ninguna de ellas iba escotada, aunque algunos trajes parecían diseñados para realzar las nalgas.

Ideally there should be no detectable connection between any two Observers, so that the loss of one would not entail the loss of any other.

The words that have spurred the greatest scientific breakthroughs are probably not Eureka but gee, that's funny!

it may be worth listening to all that scraping, tootling, and banging, for whatever information it might conceivably yield concerning Earth.

People say "It's as plain as the nose on your face." But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

A Víctor, su sobrino le resultó indescriptible; todos los críos de esa edad se parecían a Winston Churchill

C'è molta gente buona, Irina, ma è discreta. I cattivi, invece, fanno molto rumore, per questo si notano di più.

Estaba harta de contemplar desde abajo los vellos de la nariz del resto de la humanidad.

Nadie se fija en nadie, Richard. Y nosotros parecemos una pareja madura de vacaciones. —¿En la nieve? ¿En dos vehículos? ¿Con una niña llorona y un perro vestido de Sherlock Holmes? Y tú con esos pelos colorinches. Por supuesto que llamamos la atención, mujer.

saw females and children who appeared to

Es fascinante observar los objetos del hombre que una empieza a amar, revelan sus hábitos y sus secretos.

Apropos of the observatory

un ser extraordinariamente pequeño, casi calvo, arrugado y pálido, sin más signo de inteligencia humana que sus negros ojos relucientes, con una sabia expresión de ancianidad desde la cuna.

Jaime vio a su madre avanzar por el corredor, descalza, con el pelo suelto en la espalda, arropada con su bata blanca y notó que no era alta y fuerte como la había visto en su infancia.

the national sport is to talk about the person who just left the room. In this, too, we are different from our idols, the English, whose principles forbid them from making personal remarks.

Usted ha cambiado mucho, mamá —observó Blanca. —No soy yo, hija. Es el mundo que ha cambiado —respondió Clara.

tranquila a solas con otra mujer. Lucía comprobó que Cheryl era como la había descrito

There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.

Now the red caps scanned the crowd for whoever might be eyeing them displeasingly. And yet if you turned away, this might also be interpreted as a sign of disrespect. It was hard to know how, or where, to look. No one with eyes, in other words, was safe

Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and observe your thoughts - oh, and by the way, what you perceive as you' doesn't actually exist.' I loved the minimalist approach of it.

The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.