Quotes About Observation

There are actually three kinds of mind: one kind grasps things unaided, the second sees what another has grasped, the third grasps nothing and sees nothing. The first kind is extremely valuable, the second valuable, the third useless.

People in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands, for everyone can see, but few can feel. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few feel what you are.

Y el primer juicio que nos formamos sobre la inteligencia de un señor nace de observar a los hombres que le rodean; y cuando son competentes y fieles se le puede considerar siempre sabio, porque ha sabido reconocer su competencia y mantenerlos fieles a él. Pero cuando son de otra manera siempre cabe hacerse de él un juicio que no sea bueno, porque con esa elección comete el primer error.

so one has to be a prince to get to know the character of a people and a man of the people to know the character of a prince.

Así pasa en las cosas del Estado: los males que nacen en él, cuando se los descubre a tiempo, lo que sólo es dado al hombre sagaz, se los cura pronto; pero ya no tienen remedio cuando, por no haberlos advertido, se los deja crecer hasta el punto de que todo el mundo los ve.

Nas?l manzara resmi yapanlar, daÄŸlar?n ve yüksek yerlerin yap?s?n? gözlemlemek için ovada alçak bir konumda duruyor ve alçak yerlerin yap?s?n? gözlemlemek için daÄŸlar?n tepesine ç?k?yorlarsa, ayn? ÅŸekilde, halklar?n yap?s?n? iyi tan?mak için prens olmak ve prenslerin yap?s?n? iyi tan?mak için de halktan birisi olmak gerekir.

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

PuÅ£ini v?d cum suntem într-adev?r, dar toÅ£i v?d ce ne prefacem c? suntem.

How we live is so difference than how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. The Prince.

By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.

Observation precedes vision.

Know your materials! See the most minute nuances! Savor them! God is in the details.

Once you had a solid base and sufficient knowledge, and respect for the essential facts and real needs of life, nothing rivaled careful observation and contemplation fired by a passion for the invention of new means for experiencing life.

For Josef, the goal of art was to reveal new ways of seeing, "to open eyes.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

You were spying on us? It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death. He wasn't, Ronnie assured him. I'm just saying how it looked. She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.

What? You don't think he's cute? I didn't really notice. How can you not notice when a guy is cute? Melody stared at her in disbelief.

Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.

You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him. "That's why I'm perceptive.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

We sit and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence.