Quotes About Observation

The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands.

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.

The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way.

Then the children could hear a man talking. It was the baker!

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

Mandándome en sueños a mi abuelo, quien me daba bofetones toda la noche y me despertaba con golpes. ¡Y pensar que mi profesión preferida es la de observador de plátanos! —¿Cómo se hace? —Se escoge un plátano, se pone debajo de una hamaca y se observa. Se hacen observaciones interesantísimas. A propósito, me llamo Segundo.

Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.

I close my eyes and try to find the sound of the clock in the living room. There it is, past all the voices, the plates and forks clicking, the feet walking from room to room. There is the clock, keeping up with everything as if nothing has changed at all.

She was about eighteen, wearing a two-piece red bathing suit. She had blonde hair and she was really built, so when she ran you wanted to watch.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

toward the counter. She had been aware

as they watched him grasp

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings.

Of course, to execute an operation intelligently is not exactly the same thing as to follow its execution intelligently. The agent is originating, the spectator is only contemplating.

if he had examined only one signal-box and knew nothing about the standardisation-methods of large corporations, his inference would be pitiably weak, for it would be a wide generalisation based on a single instance.

But the rules which the agent observes and the criteria which he applies are one with those which govern the spectator's applause and jeers.