Quotes About Observation

I've been watching the growth of Auston Matthews, for instance. If he were playing 20 years ago, we'd be saying he's Mario Lemieux-like. He's 6-foot-5. He skates great. He's got unbelievable hands and a hockey IQ.

It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat.

Billy Jones, positionally, is unbelievable. He's not the fastest guy but he makes up for it by being positionally sound, so I really tried to focus and absorb where he would be in certain situations and just tried to add that in my game.

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

I have seen their backs before.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.