Quotes About Observation

I first saw Lucas at the end of July last summer. Of course, I didn't know who he was then... in fact, come to think of it, I didn't even know what he was. All I could see from the backseat of the car was a green-clad creature padding along the Stand in a shimmering haze of heat; a slight and ragged figure with a mop of straw-blond hair and a way of walking - I smile when I think of it - a way of walking that whispered secrets to the air.

The stone is not what I say it is. It's what you see in it.

The results were extraordinary. Over 70 percent of those who scored high on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale correctly picked out the handkerchief-smuggling associate, compared to just 30 percent of the low scorers. Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.

One of the most important things that a grifter must have in his possession is a good … 'vulnerability' radar," Morant illuminated, in a comment reminiscent of the work of psychologist Angela Book. (If you recall from chapter 1, Book found that psychopaths were better than non-psychopaths at discerning the victims of a previous violent assault simply from the way they walked.)

Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.

Aristotle observed more than 2,400 years ago, "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

but when you see something only once a year it's always new, as if you're seeing it for the first time.

How big are muffins going to get before we all join hands across America? Have you seen them? They're huge. "Yeah, I'll take a coffee and... Oh, my God! Yeah, I'll have the beanbag chair with raisins.

Re-visioning the ordinary is what art, literature, and comedy do.You can elevate mundane details into magical wonders simply by noticing them.

If there's something about your child you don't like, they've probably seen it in action from you and are simply modeling it.

She looks prepared to go past without making eye contact, foreign and unbecoming behaviour if you're in Newfoundland.

She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn't mean anything.

He lowered the blinds too, enough to give him cover should one of Brabham's people choose to look out of the window. And then he settled in for the wait.

Quite a sight," Mary finally said, and I felt like maybe she was sincere, that we were something to behold.

couldn't tell if it was love, but I also knew that I was no real judge of love, having never experienced it or even witnessed it a single time in my life.

When I woke up, Carl was standing over me, his hand lightly resting on his cheek, like I was abstract art, like he saw something that interested him but he wasn't sure what it meant, like he thought I was something a child could have made.

loved how expertly bitchy she was; I wanted to study her for a year.

As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view. Even if you feel strongly about something, learn to keep silent.

Indians do not believe in privacy; they are a nosey people and the one thing they will not do is mind their own business.

William Strachey, who would later write the most detailed account of the storm, must have made his way from his quarters to the deck so he could see conditions for himself.

She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, "Remember this and then write this." Chapter 6 p. 96

Details convince; they persuade us that the writer has looked closely at the world, and they bring us close to the world the writer is creating.

The artists who copied Rembrandt did so to learn about painting, not to be lesser versions of the master. They imitated as a way of looking closely, and then used what they had learned to develop their own work, brushstroke by brushstroke. Line by line, you can do the same.