Quotes About Observation

For the first time Gersen saw indigenous fauna of Moudervelt: a band of lizard-foxes, with gray-green pangolin scales and a single optic orb. They reared high to watch Gersen pass by; when he slowed the car they advanced with dancing sidelong steps, for purposes Gersen could not guess. He drove on, leaving the troop staring after him.

Achieving work-life balance is a process. Getting it right is iterative. You get better at it with experience and observation, and eventually, after some time passes, you notice it's not getting harder anymore. It's just what you do.

You cannot love the girl without being conscious of the fact that she has yellow hair, you cannot see the world without the intervention of the physical senses.

We become more and more aware that what we think about the world is not what the world is but what the human animal sees of the world.

Jacob Bronowski

By taking this stand, Burckhardt emerged in most refreshing contrast with his contemporaries and many of his successors. For what he developed was nothing short of a psychology of historiography. The historian is to observe, contemplate, and enjoy the incredibly glorious richness of the human experience. He is to look for human greatness and creativity everywhere, even in periods that might seem alien and distant from him.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.

I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.

It is my observation, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. I like to think it might have been so.

and I didn't know if I was proud or indignant that he hadn't noticed.

Quizá las personas que están solas no tienen tiempo. El tiempo solo se adquiere mirándolo pasar por los demás.

Jacqueline Wilson

Watch the image, and let it go. Take note of it, know that it is there, and allow it to move away, across the landscape of your mind's eye. Allow yourself to see connections, Maisie. Then go to the case map, and plan your next move.

know that expression—only a man could cause a woman to look like that

when she was the silent observer as he listened to a story, gently prodding with a question, a comment, a sigh, or a smile, "The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.

There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Poets are simply people who see things two ways. Like children, as if they had never seen them before. Like old men, as if they would never see them again.

I would watch either Michael Cera doing comedy or Louis CK doing stand-up. This would

Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.

There's a saying in Argentina, "When the CEO is looking, the cow grows fatter." A business builds fastest when the CEO is looking at it, because

That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.