Quotes About Observation

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.

Não sou um economista, político ou financeiro que disponha de respostas rápidas sobre as razões pelas quais as coisas podem ou não podem mudar. Sou um tecnólogo e um empreendedor habituado a reparar nas discrepâncias entre a forma como as coisas são e a forma como poderiam ser, e a fazer perguntas cujas respostas possam apontar o caminho para futuros melhores.

Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.

Here, said the nuggety bald fixture. You look dry as a camel's cookie.

Cassie Mackin was the first, if not the only, member of the press to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She opened her report by observing that "the Nixon campaign is, for the most part, a series of speeches before closed audiences, invited guests only.

History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance

Thrawn's unique ability to read a species' deepest psychological core by studying its artwork was one of his greatest strengths, enabling him to anticipate his opponents' moves right down to their likely battlefield tactics. New allies seeing it demonstrated for first time inevitably reacted with surprise, awe, or disbelief.

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Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi

He's…grown." "Yeah…I guess we didn't notice… "It was inevitable." "A young man's growth is always…so bright it makes old people want to look away.

The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

We wait. No sense spooking him. We let him come in nice and close while we do our famous imitation of a hole in the water

anyone who knew anything about military science could have seen it coming, because the tiny nation of Estonia had focused on diplomacy, not on its physical defense. Edgar Nõlvak had seen it coming, not because he was a soldier or a politician—he was a schoolteacher—but he had seen it coming because he watched television.

How strange, Popov thought. If the Irish didn't like the English, then why did they emulate their driving patterns?

He picked the milk off the porch, and then searched for a moment before finding the newspaper in the bushes near the door. The copy of the International Herald Tribune was wrapped in a plastic bag to protect it from the weather, indicating the paperboy had better sense than he had aim.

Wet streets don't cause rain, do they?

The pedestrian is the highest and most mighty of beings; he walks for pleasure, he observes but does not interfere, he is not in a hurry, he is happy in the company of his own mind, he wanders detached, wise and merry, godlike. He is free.

Look not for too long into the doughnut, lest the doughnut look into you.

She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

The doughnut was definitely looking at him. Hello, sailor, it seemed to be saying.

Deep empathy for people makes our observations powerful sources of inspiration.

Next time she'd have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy's face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some terrible mystery had just been solved.