Quotes About Observation

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

A cat may look at a king.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.